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as in ripped
slang being under the influence of a recreational drug most of the club patrons were too wiped out to know or care what was happening

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wiped out

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verb

past tense of wipe out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of wiped out
Adjective
Nearly 58 million birds from commercial and backyard flocks have been wiped out in the U.S. since last February, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2023 Twenty years later, the Cordyceps infection has nearly wiped out humanity, leaving the survivors contained to a few urban quarantine zones, under the regulatory thumb of FEDRA. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023 According to the Agriculture Department, the flu has wiped out more than 44 million egg-laying hens, or roughly 4 to 5 percent of production. Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023 The campaign has wiped out more than $1 trillion off the market value of some prominent companies. Laura He, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for wiped out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiped out
Adjective
  • Markets grow tired of tariff changes U.S. stocks tumbled Thursday on tariff flip-flop fatigue.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Sleep deprivation comes with real costs Chronic sleep deprivation does more than leave people tired.
    Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The couple's adult son claimed that his father was drunk at the time of the argument.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Tucker, blackout drunk on Slamm’d, once jumped out of a moving car.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Luckily, Frank Grillo plays a ripped scientist who is close to a cure, but also has to worry about keeping his family safe during yet another supermoon.
    William Earl, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Ignoring faculty warnings, David dashed forward with a ripped notebook page for Lennon to sign.
    Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Only a few years had passed since the WHO declared in 1979 that smallpox was the first human disease to be eradicated worldwide.
    Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Individual errors cannot be eradicated entirely, but must be reduced.
    Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Over time, this pattern can leave you emotionally exhausted and constantly walking on eggshells to prevent upsetting them.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Hackman was busy in the 1970s — his work also included the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and a French Connection sequel — and the regimen left him exhausted.
    Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The new script brings to life images that are only discussed in Gogol’s original, such as a group of drunken rats.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
  • She was arrested on charges including drunken driving and hit-and-run, police said.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Darnold is the first major quarterback of the loaded 2025 free agent class to sign with a new team.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Shih said a search of one suspect’s home yielded evidence related to the crimes, as well as a loaded handgun with an extended magazine.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The other database eschews page numbers all together, so there’s literally no way of knowing that the articles—which were once leading articles of the magazines in question—have been erased.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, entire issues of other Chinese legal and social science journals have been erased from databases.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Wiped out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiped%20out. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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