wipe sth out

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wipe
Before 1666 a ®fth of the population were periodically wiped out by plague epidemics and immigration levels were high, both from home and abroad.
Instead of wiping the melted chocolate off his hands and shrugging off the incident, he asked for popcorn.
The term 'di punahkan' (wiped out) is now commonly employed to describe the situation.
However, wiping of surfaces without disinfectant and using the same rag elsewhere could actually help to spread the pathogen.
Anarchists were hounded and their organisations wiped out in the early twentieth century.
Thickness of the internal layer is fitted to be fully wiped out during laser pulse absorption stage.
The slide was drained and excess moisture was carefully removed by wiping around the specimen with a tissue and allowing it to air dry.
Despite this poor training, by late 1993 the army had almost succeeded in wiping out the rebel forces.
Regurgitated seeds are typically deliberately wiped against a branch, and bill wiping behaviour is commonly observed in frugivorous birds.
Explanation is exclusive description - wiping out whatever is not relevant for the main line of the narrative.
In fact, the legal principle of indiras enshrined this notion of time wiping clean past claims.
Hence, if the living creatures were removed, all these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated.
The learned counsel sat down, and, having wiped his eyes, ate a sandwich.
Ancient civilizations are reduced to rubble, whole cultures destroyed, 90% of the world's 600 surviving languages will have been wiped out this century.
Among the 43 cases here, however, no family was wiped out by an epidemic and only one by apparent infertility.
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