Usually means: Erasing data from digital storage.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word wiping:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. wiping: Merriam-Webster
  2. wiping: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wiping: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wiping, wiping: Wordnik
  5. wiping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wiping: Wiktionary
  7. wiping: Dictionary.com
  8. wiping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Wiping (magnetic tape), Wiping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Wiping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Wiping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. wiping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. wiping: FreeDictionary.org
  14. wiping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wiping: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. Wiping (magnetic film), Wiping (magnetic tape), wiping: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wiping: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wiping)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is wiped.
▸ noun:  Material wiped off something.
▸ noun:  (slang) A thrashing.

Similar:
rub, obliterate, efface, pass over, wipedown, extersion, erasion, mindwipe, erasure, dust-off, more...

Opposite:
smearing, spreading, applying, coating, dirtying

Types:
dry wiping, wet wiping, baby wipes, disinfectant wipes, flushable wipes, cloth wiping, paper wiping, hand wiping, more...

Phrases:
wiping out, wiping away, wiping off, wiping up, wiping off the map, more...

Colors:
    white,     gray,     beige,     cream,     light blue, more...



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Similar:
rub, obliterate, efface, pass over, wipedown, extersion, erasion, mindwipe, erasure, dust-off, more...

Opposite:
smearing, spreading, applying, coating, dirtying

Types:
dry wiping, wet wiping, baby wipes, disinfectant wipes, flushable wipes, cloth wiping, paper wiping, hand wiping, more...

Phrases:
wiping out, wiping away, wiping off, wiping up, wiping off the map, wiping eye, wiping the floor, wiping the slate clean, ones wiping off dishes at home, wiping off dirt, quickly wiping, wiping water, more...

Colors:
    white,     gray,     beige,     cream,     light blue, more...



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