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Wipe   /waɪp/   Listen
verb
Wipe  v. t.  (past & past part. wiped; pres. part. wiping)  
1.
To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel. "Let me wipe thy face." "I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down."
2.
To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively. "To wipe out our ingratitude." "Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon."
3.
To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. (Obs.) "If they by coveyne (covin) or gile be wiped beside their goods."
To wipe a joint (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.
To wipe the nose of, to cheat. (Old Slang)


noun
Wipe  n.  (Zool.) The lapwing. (Prov. Eng.)


Wipe  n.  
1.
Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
2.
A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe. (Low)
3.
A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
4.
A handkerchief. (Thieves' Cant or Slang)
5.
Stain; brand. (Obs.) "Slavish wipe."





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"Wipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... Timothy Cook stopped to wipe his forehead, as if overcome with the very recollection, and Mr. Gryce took the opportunity ...
— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green
... hands all round, spluttered a little about the "beastly luck" the Camdens had been having, and ended by swearing that Camden would "wipe up the earth" with Rockland before the season was over. He was very vehement ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish
... Beecham, and he attended to all her wants. She did everything he did, even taking mustard, and was very brave at quelling the tears that rose to the doll-like blue eyes. When Mr Beecham wiped his moustache, it was amusing to see her also wipe ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... Mr. Bumble, somewhat less pompously, for it was gratifying to his feelings to observe the effect his eloquence had produced; 'Come, Oliver! Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don't cry into your gruel; that's a very foolish action, Oliver.' It certainly was, for there was quite enough water in ...
— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens
... tell him so much. So he said he'd make my heart ache; and if so be that he could get a woman to his mind, he'd marry himself. Gad, says I, an you play the fool and marry at these years, there's more danger of your head's aching than my heart. He was woundy angry when I gave'n that wipe. He hadn't a word to say, and so I left'n, and the green girl together; mayhap the bee may bite, and he'll marry her himself, with ...
— Love for Love • William Congreve


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