wipe off

English

Verb

wipe off (third-person singular simple present wipes off, present participle wiping off, simple past and past participle wiped off)

1. (literally) To remove something by wiping.

   Wipe a picture off the board.

   Wipe water off the windscreen.

2. (figuratively) To destroy completely, leaving no trace.

   Wipe a species off the planet Earth.

   Wipe his data off the computer.

   Global warming could wipe some coastal areas off the map.

Translations

remove by wiping

• Arabic: مَسَحَ‎ (masaḥa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擦掉 (zh) (cādiào)

• French: rayer (fr)
• German: abwischen (de)
• Hebrew: מָחָה‎ (he) (maẖá)
• Japanese: 拭く (ja) (ふく, fuku)
• Korean: 닦다 (ko) (dakda)
• Latin: tergeō, dētergeō
• Polish: zetrzeć (pl)
• Russian: вытира́ть (ru) impf (vytirátʹ), вы́тереть (ru) pf (výteretʹ), стира́ть (ru) impf (stirátʹ), стере́ть (ru) pf (sterétʹ)

destroy, leaving no trace

• French: rayer (fr)
• Hebrew: מָחָה‎ (he) (maẖá)

See also

• wipe out