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wipe out

/wahyp-out/US // ˈwaɪpˌaʊt //

歼灭,扫除,歼灭战,消灭

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal. destruction, annihilation, or murder.
    • : Informal. a decisive defeat.
    • : a fall from a surfboard.
    • : Slang. a total or complete failure: to suffer a wipeout in the stock market.
    • : Slang. complete physical exhaustion.

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Examples

  • Because obviously on that dimension at least, a prediction of famine and population wipeout, Vogt was wildly wrong.

  • In larger surf, you can tie the board-short loop into the laces of your trunks to make sure the top doesn’t come off on a wipeout.

  • Expect him to dot his fastball, making it cut both ways, at less than max effort with his big weapons being his wipeout curve and change-up.

  • Democrats say it’s a little too early to say 2020 was a total wipeout for them.

  • The 2014 election was a wipeout, progressives say, because Democrats lacked a bold economic message to inspire voters.

  • So 2018 will shape up as another wipeout, and the Senate will flip back to the GOP again.

  • So Wisconsin was his only hope of avoiding a triple wipeout.

  • If Santorum had been able to face Romney one-on-one it would have been a wipeout.

  • As Republicans faced their own wipeout in 2006, conservative commentators penned plenty of pieces along the same lines.