Synonyms for wipe
waɪpwipe

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1. wipe

   To clean is to make clean by removing dirt, impurities, or soil of any kind. Cleanse implies a worse condition to start from, and more to do, than clean. Hercules cleansed the Augean stables. Cleanse is especially applied to purifying processes where liquid is used, as in the flushing of a street, etc. We brush clothing if dusty, sponge it, or sponge it off, if soiled; or sponge off a spot. Furniture, books, etc., are dusted; floors are mopped or scrubbed; metallic utensils are scoured; a room is swept; soiled garments are washed; foul air or water is purified. Cleanse and purify are used extensively in a moral sense; wash in that sense is archaic. Compare AMEND.

   Synonyms:
   brush, clean, cleanse, disinfect, dust, lave, mop, purify, rinse, scour, scrub, sponge, sweep, wash

   Antonyms:
   befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile, deprave, pollute, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, vitiate

   Preposition:
   Cleanse of or from physical or moral defilement; cleanse with an instrument; by an agent; the room was cleansed by the attendants with soap and water.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. rub, wipeverb

   the act of rubbing or wiping

   "he gave the hood a quick rub"

   Synonyms:
   hang-up, hitch, snag, rub

2. wipe, pass oververb

   rub with a circular motion

   "wipe the blackboard"; "He passed his hands over the soft cloth"

   Synonyms:
   skip over, cut through, cover, cut across, overfly, pass across, transit, pass through, pass over, cross, track, skip, move through, get across, get over, traverse, jump

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1. wipeverb

   Synonyms:
   rub (as with a cloth, in order to clean or dry)

2. wipenoun

   Synonyms:
   wiping

3. wipenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] blow, stroke, hit

4. wipenoun

   Synonyms:
   sneer, gibe, taunt, sarcasm

5. wipenoun

   Synonyms:
   (Ornith.) pewit, lapwing (vanellus cristatus)

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1. wipenoun

   Synonyms:
   gibe, taunt, jeer, sarcasm

2. wipeverb

   Synonyms:
   swab, expunge, efface, obliterate, erase

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "wipe":

   erase, clean, delete, erasure, scan, dry, rag, rub, cloth, sweep

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1. Daniel Craig:

   I’ve been trying to get out of this from the very moment I got into it. But they won’t let me go, and I’ve agreed to do a couple more, but let’s see how this one does, because business is business, and if the s–t goes down, I’ve got a contract that somebody will happily wipe their ass with.

2. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

   Until we wipe out Daesh, Turkey will continue its fight at home and with coalition forces.

3. Jeff Corwin:

   When you take something that is nearly gone and you bring it to that point of recovery, it's evidence that there's an opportunity to do that and to do that with other species versus kind of brushing the hands and saying, ‘Well, let’s wipe away that lost cause,' what we see is inspiration and motivation to apply that method of recovery to other species.

4. Paul de Man:

   Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

5. Unknown:

   Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.