verb
- Use up (resources or materials. )
- usage: "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
- Kill in large numbers.
- usage: "the plague wiped out an entire population"
- synonyms: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off
- Eliminate completely and without a trace.
- usage: "The old values have been wiped out"
- synonyms: sweep away
- Remove from memory or existence.
- usage: "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
- synonyms: erase
- Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase.
- usage: "kill these lines in the President's speech"
- synonyms: kill, obliterate
- Wipe out the effect of something.
- usage: "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
- synonyms: cancel out
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