Meanings (ES + gloss)
aniquilar • borrar del mapa • exterminar
To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
Yasser Arafat (Katz): You do not go far enough General Amin. We must rip their entrails out and drag them from here to Damascus until they include us in the peace process. Muammar…
a tornado that nearly wiped out an entire town
borrar
To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
nearly a year's worth of database records wiped out by disk failure coupled with lack of backups
caer • sacarse la mierda • sacarse la mugre
To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
A massive wave caused him to wipe out.
shot into the half-pipe but then wiped out
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