WIPES OUT Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

wipes out

verb

present tense third-person singular of wipe out

as in eradicates

to destroy all traces of he didn't get his gambling under control until he had already wiped out his entire life savings

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Recent Examples of wipes out This major markdown wipes out the steep premiums on most high-tier gaming displays, allowing e-sports players and media creators to rise through the ranks with a highly fluid, ultra-clear panoramic canvas. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026 Continue reading … LINES REDRAWN — Supreme Court greenlights Alabama GOP map that wipes out a majority-Black district. — FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026 Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025 That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet. — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wipes out

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But that also eradicates a crucial option - to mount a show trial and scapegoat him for all the ills of his rule, thus absolving others.

— Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Treating the underlying condition eradicates the need for drug treatments that act globally.

— Dr. Patricia Richard, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026

Definition of eradicates

Verb

However, this innovative material completely erases thermal signatures from infrared screens by altering how heat is emitted and detected.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Windows automatically erases them after 72 hours to prevent them from using too much disk space.

— Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026

Definition of erases

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Zeus obliges, striking their ship with a thunderbolt that destroys it and kills every member of Odysseus’ crew except the king himself.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026
Zeus destroys Odysseus’ last ship, killing his crew and leaving Odysseus as the only survivor.

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

Definition of destroys

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The phenomenon, where smoke blots out the blue sky overhead, making the air appear milky-white or even orange, has become a relatively regular fixture of summers where out-of-control wildfires in the West bring noxious smoke downwind.

— Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 17 July 2026
Extragalactic astronomers refer to a region behind our Milky Way as the 'Zone of Avoidance' because dust between our galaxy's stars blots out, or deeply reddens, light from more distant galaxies behind it.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 May 2026