wipe

Meaning

1. To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
2. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
3. To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
4. (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
5. To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
6. To erase.
7. 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.
8. To remove an expression from one's face.
9. To deperm (a ship).
10. 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.

rub

rub away

wipe forehead

make a note

liquid knockout

score out

esponjar

brush away

wipe dry

clean by rubbing

wipe-off

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/waɪp/

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.