Usually means: Erase or clean completely, thoroughly.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. wipe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wipe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wipe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wipe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wipe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wipe, wipe: Wordnik
  7. wipe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wipe: Wiktionary
  9. wipe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wipe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wipe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wipe: Dictionary.com
  13. wipe (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wipe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wipe (disambiguation), Wipe (transition), Wipe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wipe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wipe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wipe: Rhymezone
  19. wipe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wipe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wipe: Free Dictionary
  22. wipe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wipe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. wipe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wipe: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wipe: Hacking Lexicon
  2. Wipe (disambiguation), wipe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WIPE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. wipe: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wipe, wipe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wipe: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wipe: Card Games

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  3. wipe: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
verb:  (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
verb:  (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
verb:  (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To erase.
verb:  (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
verb:  (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
verb:  (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
verb:  (video editing) To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
noun:  The act of wiping something.
noun:  A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
noun:  A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
noun:  (obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
noun:  A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
verb:  (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
noun:  (roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.

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