Verb
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wipe out the effect of something
"The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"
"The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
- cancel out -
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
"kill these lines in the President's speech"
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remove from memory or existence
"The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
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eliminate completely and without a trace
"The old values have been wiped out"
- sweep away -
kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
- carry off -
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"
- eat up - use up - run through