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 That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet. — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 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 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 Continue reading … LINES REDRAWN — Supreme Court greenlights Alabama GOP map that wipes out a majority-Black district. — FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wipes out

Verb

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

Windows automatically erases them after 72 hours to prevent them from using too much disk space.

— Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
The whole thing with Pullman porters is they weren’t called by their names, they were all called George, so that erases your identity.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2026

Definition of erases

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What starts as a series that aims to subvert the heist genre at every turn – amped with thrilling life-or-death stakes, family dynamics, and explosive action – gives birth to an exploration of what drives us, sustains us, and ultimately destroys us.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 June 2026
Arrrives, destroys Femi and hands Main Event Jey the crown.

— Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

Definition of destroys

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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
Most people never get to experience a total solar eclipse, when the moon blots out the disk of the sun and reveals its fiery outermost atmospheric layer, or corona.

— Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026