wipe something up

Examples of wiping

wiping

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They dressed and undressed themselves and used human toilets, wiping themselves, flushing, even asking to go potty during lessons and naptimes.
All the project's interviewers observed much tending of people as children: wiping hands, fixing bibs, and putting food directly into their mouths.
As the wiping is not necessary, there is no danger to fragment the solar cells or the cover-glasses.
How far back must one go in wiping clean the historical slate of injustices?
Instead of wiping the melted chocolate off his hands and shrugging off the incident, he asked for popcorn.
However, wiping of surfaces without disinfectant and using the same rag elsewhere could actually help to spread the pathogen.
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.
Wiping the slate clean: a lexical semantic exploration.
Therefore, the wiping operation must be conducted manually, which also brings along the danger of the solar cells fragmenting.
Therefore, the wiping operation is imperative in the manual operation.
Alcohol wiping may supplement these procedures for reactive components such as pyrotechnics.
Third, not all employees used gloves correctly, and some were observed wiping their hands on heavily soiled uniforms.
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