English to English
verb
- use up (resources or materials)
This car consumes a lot of gas.
We exhausted our savings.
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week.
source: WordNet 3.0
- kill in large numbers
The plague wiped out an entire population.
source: WordNet 3.0
- eliminate completely and without a trace
The old values have been wiped out.
source: WordNet 3.0
- remove from memory or existence
The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915.
source: WordNet 3.0
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
Kill these lines in the President's speech.
source: WordNet 3.0
- wipe out the effect of something
The new tax effectively cancels out my raise.
The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record.
source: WordNet 3.0
