WIPED OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wiped out mean? 

• WIPED OUT (adjective)
  The adjective WIPED OUT has 2 senses:

1. destroyed completely

2. destroyed financially

  Familiarity information: WIPED OUT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIPED OUT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroyed completely

Synonyms:

annihilated; exterminated; wiped out

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Destroyed financially

Synonyms:

broken; impoverished; wiped out

Context example:

the broken fortunes of the family

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

If humanity had been wiped out, the gods would have starved.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Citing statistics from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the earth is on course to see 20 to 40 per cent of all biodiversity wiped out by the end of the 21st century.

(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Recent developments in genetic modification (GM) technology include a way to prevent the popular Cavendish banana variety from being wiped out by the Fusarium wilt fungus.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

"When I see the box I shall open it and destroy the monster, though there were a thousand men looking on, and if I am to be wiped out for it the next moment!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the planet, the impact set wildfires, triggered tsunamis and blasted so much sulfur into the atmosphere that it blocked the sun, which caused the global cooling that ultimately doomed the dinos.

(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)

I was not unprepared for this request, for I had noticed how his pets went on increasing in size and vivacity, but I did not care that his pretty family of tame sparrows should be wiped out in the same manner as the flies and the spiders; so I said I would see about it, and asked him if he would not rather have a cat than a kitten.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Daisy, that's all over now," he said earnestly. "It doesn't matter any more. Just tell him the truth—that you never loved him—and it's all wiped out forever."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)