wipe off

English

Verb

wipe off (third-person singular simple present wipes off, present participle wiping off, simple past and past participle wiped off)

1. (transitive, literally) To remove (something such as dirt) by wiping.

   Coordinate terms: wipe away, wipe up

   wipe a picture off the board

   wipe water off the windscreen

2. (transitive, literally) To clean (something), removing any dirt from it, by wiping it.

   Coordinate term: wipe down

   wipe off the countertop

   The countertop is dirty. Please wipe it off.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To destroy completely, leaving no trace.

   Coordinate term: wipe out

   Wipe that smile off your face!

   wipe a species off the planet Earth

   Wipe his data off the computer.

   Global warming could wipe some coastal areas off the map.

Translations

remove by wiping

• Arabic: مَسَحَ (masaḥa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擦掉 (zh) (cādiào)

• French: rayer (fr)
• German: abwischen (de)
• Hebrew: מָחָה (he) (maẖá)
• Japanese: 拭く (ja) (ふく, fuku)
• Korean: 닦다 (ko) (dakda)
• Latin: tergeō, dētergeō
• Polish: zetrzeć (pl)
• Russian: вытира́ть (ru) impf (vytirátʹ), вы́тереть (ru) pf (výteretʹ), стира́ть (ru) impf (stirátʹ), стере́ть (ru) pf (sterétʹ)

destroy, leaving no trace

• French: rayer (fr)
• Hebrew: מָחָה (he) (maẖá)