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wipe someone's eye

wipe someone's eye verb: to defeat someone humiliatingly.

Verb

wipe someone's eye (third-person singular simple present wipes someone's eye, present participle wiping someone's eye, simple past and past participle wiped someone's eye)

  1. (idiomatic) To defeat someone humiliatingly.

Forms of wipe someone's eye

third-person singular presentwipes someone's eye
present participlewiping someone's eye
past participlewiped someone's eye
pastwiped someone's eye

Questions about wipe someone's eye

What does wipe someone's eye mean?
Wipe someone's eye means to defeat someone humiliatingly.
What part of speech is wipe someone's eye?
Wipe someone's eye is a verb.
What is the past tense of wipe someone's eye?
The past tense of wipe someone's eye is wiped someone's eye.

Words near wipe someone's eye in the dictionary

  1. wipe off
  2. wipe one's ass with
  3. wipe oneself
  4. wipe out
  5. wipe outs
  6. wipe someone's eye
  7. wipe someone's nose
  8. wipe the floor with someone
  9. wipe the slate clean
  10. wipe the smile off someone's face
  11. wipe up

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