wipe

IPA: wˈaɪp

The act of wiping something.
A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
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.
(obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
(roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.

(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
(transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
(transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
(obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
(transitive, intransitive) To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
(transitive, computing) To erase.
(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.
(figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
(transitive) To deperm (a ship).
(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.
(intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.

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