Wipe Out Definition

The population of the village was almost wiped out by the plague in 1645. Kill; Also murder. For example, the entire crew was wiped out in the plane crash, or the gangsters threatened to wipe him and his family out. Thus, 2018 will turn into another erasure, and the Senate will return to the GOP. Expect him to punch his fastball and cut it back and forth, with less effort than maximal, his big weapons being his elimination curve and change. Wisconsin was his only hope of avoiding a triple wipeout. At the time, surfboards weighed between 30 and 50 pounds and were constructed from hard materials that could cause injury after erasure. Because obviously Vogt was completely wrong, at least in this dimension, a prediction of famine and extinction of the population. The Democrats say it a little too early to say that 2020 was a total destroyer for them.

When the Republicans faced their own defeat in 2006, conservative commentators wrote many articles along the same lines. The 2014 election was a defeat, progressives say, because Democrats lacked a bold economic message to inspire voters. To turn off means to exhaust or exhaust completely. If you eliminate your grandmother`s entire batch of brownies, it means you`re eating each and every one of them. Destroy, as in The Great Chains, annihilate independent bookstores. Originally expressed simply as a sweep, the idiom was acquired in the first half of the 1800s. The indigenous population was completely wiped out by the rapid spread of new diseases. In case of more extensive surfing, you can tie the short loop of the board into the laces of your pants to ensure that the top does not come off during a wipeout.

If Santorum could have faced Romney one-on-one, it would have been a defeat. You could wipe out your savings in Las Vegas or clear your credit card debt by paying a little each month for a year. In either case, you deleted or eliminated something. Sometimes extinction is used to describe a truly terrible event, such as when a disease wipes out a country`s songbird population. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English.