use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week", (synonym) consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through
kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population", (synonym) eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech", (synonym) kill, obliterate
eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out", (synonym) sweep away
To wipe out something such as a place or a group of people or animals means to destroy them completely. The spill could wipe out the Gulf's turtle population The man is a fanatic who is determined to wipe out any opposition to the way he conducts himself