English Dictionary

wipe

/waɪp/

verb

(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)

She wiped the table clean.

意味（1）

(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)

Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.

意味（2）

(transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.

Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.

意味（3）

(obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.

The English, which they thinke lye still in wayte to wipe them out of theyr landes.

意味（4）

(transitive, intransitive) To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.

I had nothing to wipe my butt with.

意味（5）

(transitive, computing) To erase.

I accidentally wiped my hard drive.

意味（6）

(transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.

意味（7）

(figuratively) To remove an expression from one's face.

Please wipe that look out of your eyes, it's bribing me to doubt myself.

意味（8）

(transitive) To deperm (a ship).