| VERB | consumption | wipe out, consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through | use up (resources or materials) |
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| change | wipe out, eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off | kill / kill / kill in large numbers | |
| creation | wipe out, sweep away | eliminate completely and without a trace | |
| change | wipe out, erase | remove from memory or existence | |
| change | wipe out, kill, obliterate | mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | |
| change | wipe out, cancel out | wipe out the effect of something |
| Meaning | use up (resources or materials). | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They wipe out more bread | |
| Synonyms | consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through | |
| Entailed by | fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away | spend frivolously and unwisely |
| use, expend | use up, consume fully | |
| Narrower | burn off, burn, burn up | use up (energy) |
| drain | deplete of resources | |
| indulge, luxuriate | enjoy / enjoy / enjoy to excess | |
| run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire | deplete | |
| run out | Exhaust the supply of | |
| spend | spend completely | |
| Broader | spend, expend, drop | pay out |
| See also | wipe | rub with a circular motion |
| Similar to | take, occupy, use up | require (time or space) |
| Spanish | agotar, comer, consumir, disminuir, ingerir, mermar, reducir | |
| Catalan | consumir, disminuir, esgotar, exhaurir, ingerir, menjar, minvar, reduir | |
| Meaning | kill / kill / kill in large numbers. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off | |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Similar to | decimate | kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies |
| Spanish | anihilar, aniquilar, diezmar, eliminar, erradicar | |
| Catalan | anihilar, aniquilar, delmar, eliminar, eradicar, erradicar | |
| Nouns | wipeout | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |
| Meaning | Eliminate completely and without a trace. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | sweep away | |
| Broader | destroy, destruct | Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of |
| Spanish | barrer, borrar | |
| Catalan | esborrar, escombrar | |
| Nouns | wipeout | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |
| Meaning | Remove from memory or existence. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | erase | |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Spanish | borrar, liquidar | |
| Catalan | esborrar | |
| Nouns | wipeout | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |
| Meaning | mark for deletion, rub off, or erase. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | kill, obliterate | |
| Broader | take away, take out | take out or remove |
| Spanish | borrar | |
| Catalan | esborrar | |
| Nouns | wipeout | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |
| Meaning | wipe out the effect of something. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | cancel out | |
| Broader | extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with | Terminate, end, or take out |
| Spanish | anular, destruir | |
| Catalan | anul·lar, destruir | |
| Nouns | wipeout | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |
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