wipe out

Verb

• wipe out the effect of something
  • The new tax effectively cancels out my raise
    
  • The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record
    

• mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
  • kill these lines in the President's speech
    

• remove from memory or existence
  • The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
    

• eliminate completely and without a trace
  • The old values have been wiped out
    

• kill in large numbers
  • the plague wiped out an entire population
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cancel out , kill , obliterate , erase , sweep away , eliminate , annihilate , extinguish , eradicate , decimate , carry off , consume , eat up , use up , eat , deplete , exhaust , run through