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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

"wipe up" and "wipe out"

Are these two verbs somewhat interchangeable ?
  

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No. Generally, "wipe up" means to clean. "Wipe out" means to crash, especially on a surfboard.

  • No.
  • Generally, "wipe up" means to clean.
  • "Wipe out" means to crash, especially on a surfboard.
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No. Generally, "wipe up" means to clean. "Wipe out" means to crash, especially on a surfboard.
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Thanks, I thought the meanings are somehow close, so I wondered if they have equal meaning in some situations.
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youzou so I wondered if they have equal meaning in some situations.
When you ask these questions, youzou, please include sentences that worry you. Presenting words in isolation is a frustration.
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These can both relate to cleaning, but they are used differently and are not interchangeable:

I wiped up the spilled milk on the floor.

I wiped out the scrawled obscenities on the blackboard.
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These can both be used in the sense of a bad beating in sports, but they can't be interchanged:

We wiped up the floor with them. It was no contest.

We wiped them out. By halftime the score was 70-0.

We wiped up on them. It was like the Packers playing a jayvee team.

They were wiped out. After the first quarter the other team started to play their bench but t
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Mister MicawberWhen you ask these questions, youzou, please include sentences that worry you. Presenting words in isolation is a frustration.
There is no sentence, I am learning them and along studying and trying to use them. But I couldn't distinguish between them. So I asked.
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youzouBut I couldn't distinguish between them
Few of us can without context. All that can be offered is a range of possibilities, as Summit has done.

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