wipe out
US informal — phrasal verb with wipe /waɪp/ verb [T]Definition
› to lose control, especially in a vehicle, and have an accident: I was going too fast and I wiped out on the bend.Accidents involving vehicles
(Definition of wipe out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- aquaplane verb
- blowout noun (EXPLOSION)
- brake noun
- collide verb
- crash verb (HAVE AN ACCIDENT)
- head-on adjective, adverb
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