wipeoutとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

wipeout (複数形 wipeouts)

1. The act of colliding or crashing.

   The skateboarder had a nasty wipeout as she came off the ramp.

2. Total destruction or elimination.

   The wipeout of this industry could be catastrophic.

動詞

wipe out (三人称単数 現在形 wipes out, 現在分詞 wiping out, 過去形および過去分詞形 wiped out)

1. (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number of people または things); to obliterate.
   • 1999, “Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, in Star Wars:

     Darth Sidious: Wipe them out. All of them.

   • 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2022, retrieved 2 August 2022, 33:41 from the start:

     Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th かつ 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account.

2. (transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
3. (transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear.
   • 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian‎^[2]:

     The leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had dominated headlines in recent weeks with rousing open-air rallies against capitalism, took about 11% and failed in his ultimate aim of beating Le Pen and wiping out the extreme right.

4. (transitive, informal) To exhaust; to tire out.
   • 2014, Sandra Gutierrez, The Way Life Used To Be (page 135)

     I tried to force myself to sound happy even though I was exhausted. Four solid days of finals and studying for them had wiped me out.

5. (intransitive) To crash; to fall over (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
6. (surfing, transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board.
7. (surfing, intransitive) To fall off one's surfboard.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:destroy