wipeth

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
   • Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.
2. (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
   • You've wiped grease all over your shirt.
3. (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
   • Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
4. (ambitransitive) To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination.
   • I had nothing to wipe my bum with.
5. (transitive) To erase.
   • I accidentally wiped my hard drive.
6. (transitive) 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.

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