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wipe off

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Verb1.wipe offwipe off - remove by wiping
wipe away
remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
deterge - wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body; "This drug is powerful enough to deterge"
2.wipe offwipe off - remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
rub out, score out, erase, efface
sponge - erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
delete, cancel - remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"
scratch out, cut out - strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out; "scratch out my name on that list"
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Let me wipe off that strawberry jam over your mouth.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
Anyway, I shall first slap him; the initiative will be mine; and by the laws of honour that is everything: he will be branded and cannot wipe off the slap by any blows, by nothing but a duel.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Carefully she rubbed and ironed every fold and every hem, with the most scrupulous exactness, every now and then raising her hand to her face to wipe off the tears that were coursing down her cheeks.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
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