1. An event that completely destroys something
   "The team suffered a wipeout in the championship game";
   - destruction, demolition
    
2. (sport) a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)
   "The surfer's spectacular wipeout was caught on camera"

1. Eliminate completely and without a trace
   "The old values have been wiped out";
   - sweep away
    
2. Kill in large numbers
   "the plague wiped out an entire population";
   - extinguish, decimate
    
3. Remove from memory or existence
   "The tsunami wiped out entire coastal villages";
   - erase
    
4. Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
   "wipe out these lines in the President's speech";
   - kill, obliterate
    
5. Wipe out the effect of something
   "The new tax effectively wipes out my raise";
   - cancel out
    
6. Utilize or spend available resources or supplies
   "The emergency wiped out their savings";
   - consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, use, expend

Derived forms: wipes out, wipeouts, wiped out, wiping out

Type of: conclusion, destroy, destruct, do away with, drop, eliminate, ending, expend, extinguish, fall, finish, fish out [informal], get rid of, kill, spend, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], spill, take out, tumble, uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Wipeout