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wipe off the map

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wipe somewhere off the map

to cause a place to stop existing The flood of 1965 almost wiped the town off the map.

See also: map, off, wipe

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."

See also: map, off, wipe

wipe off the map

To destroy completely; annihilate.

See also: map, off, wipe