wiping out
Completely getting rid
Wiping out means destroying completely or eliminating: The tsunami wiped out entire villages.
It can describe financial ruin (The crash wiped out my savings) or physical exhaustion (That hike really wiped me out).
In surfing and skateboarding, to wipe out is to fall spectacularly: He wiped out on the halfpipe.
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
mass extinction · destruction · scorched earth · decimation · erasure · elimination · genocide · ethnic cleansing · expunging · deletion · eradication · purging · razing · abolition · cancellation · liquidation · nuclear option · demolition
- eliminatingeliminating, eradicating, exterminating, abolishing, annihilating
- depletingusing up, depleting, exhausting, draining, consuming
- eliminationremoval, exclusion, eradication, obliteration, expulsion
- mass killingmass murder, massacre, slaughter, carnage, bloodshed
- outperformingsurpassing, exceeding, excelling, outperforming, outdoing
- restrainingconstraining, restricting, limiting, confining, curbing
wiping outpreserving
Protecting from deterioration
saving · protecting · conserving · safeguarding · maintaining
wiping outcreating
Making something new
establishing · founding · generating · building · originating
wiping outrepopulating
Filling with inhabitants again
multiplying · proliferating · restoring · reviving · regenerating
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