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wipe off the map
wipe somewhere off the map
to cause a place to stop existing The flood of 1965 almost wiped the town off the map.
wipe off the map
Also, wipe off the face of the earth. Eliminate completely, as in Some day we hope to wipe malaria off the map. This idiom uses wipe in the sense of "obliterate," and map and face of the earth in the sense of "everywhere."
wipe off the map
To destroy completely; annihilate.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Gentius | | - | Albanian |
Tianna | | tee-AN-ə | English (Modern) |
Stamatios | | - | Greek |
Sulabha | | - | Indian, Marathi |
Amaia | | - | Basque |
Mihaela | | mee-hah-YE-lah (Romanian), mee-HAH-el-ah (Croatian) | Romanian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian |