Wipe out
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

END
The part you are expected to play; "he held up his end"

EAT
Take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"

4 letters

NUKE
The warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb

KILL
The destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"

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ERASE
Wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"

EATUP
Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

USEUP
Require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"

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NEGATE
Prove negative; show to be false

DELETE
Wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"

EFFACE
Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

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CONSUME
Engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

DEPLETE
Use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

EXPUNGE
Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

DESTROY
Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

ABOLISH
Do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

EXHAUST
Eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"

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MASSACRE
The savage and excessive killing of many people

CARRYOFF
Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"

DECIMATE
Kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

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ERADICATE
Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

ELIMINATE
Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"

CANCELOUT
Wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"

SWEEPAWAY
Eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"

10 letters

RUNTHROUGH
Use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

ANNIHILATE
Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

EXTINGUISH
Put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"

OBLITERATE
Reduced to nothingness

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EXTERMINATE
Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"