wipe

To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)transitive

• Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.
• I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand.

To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.transitive

• You've wiped grease all over your shirt.

To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.transitive

• Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.
• So the plot is that he wipes half the population?

To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination.ambitransitive

• I had nothing to wipe my bum with.
• Even if you wipe very carefully, you still have to wash your hands afterward.

To erase.transitive

• I accidentally wiped my hard drive.

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.transitive

To remove an expression from one's face.figuratively

• You should wipe that smirk off your face before the boss comes in.

To deperm (a ship).transitive

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.

• Steve-O tells the camera, “Don’t worry; the next skit’s gonna be amazing”; he then pretends to grab the side of the screen, which “wipes” to the next shot.

To hit or strike.UKobsoleteslang

The act of wiping something.

• multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk

A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.

• When on a plane or train, don't take anything into the bathroom except baby, a changing pad, a diaper, a travel packet of wipes, and a bottle of hand sanitizer. Always use a wipe on the area before you put your baby down.

A handkerchief.UKobsoleteslang

• "Now, my kiveys, shy up your castors, tie your bird's-eye wipes to the stakes, and go to work."
• All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […]

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.

A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.obsolete

• I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home.

A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.UKobsoleteslang

• He rode close up to a French officer, and so much in advance of his men that the Frenchman thought he was going to surrender, and dropped his sword, when Penrice gave him a wipe over his head.

A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.intransitive

• If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.

An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.