wipe

Meanings

Plural: wipes

Noun

the act of rubbing or wiping
The act of wiping something.
A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
A handkerchief.
A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.

Verb

rub with a circular motion
- "wipe the blackboard"
To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
To erase.
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.
To remove an expression from one's face.
To deperm (a ship).
To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
To hit or strike.
To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift.

Synonyms

pass over, rub, TPK

Scrabble Score: 9

wipe is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
wipe is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wipe is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

wipe is a valid Words With Friends word