wipes

5 definitions • 10 examples

to slide something, especially a piece of cloth, over the surface of something else, in order to remove dirt, food, or liquid:

Do you have some paper towels that I can wipe the floor with?

I'll just get a sponge and wipe the crumbs off the table.

Don't wipe your nose on your sleeve!

Someone has wiped their dirty hands on my nice clean towel!

a piece of soft, wet cloth or paper that you use for wiping:

baby wipes

an act of wiping:

I'd better give the floor a quick wipe before someone slips on it.

to slide something over the surface of something else, in order to remove dirt, food, or liquid:

Please wipe your feet before you come into the house.

She gently wiped and cleaned her scraped knee.

[ M ] Just take the sponge in the sink and wipe the table off.

if someone or something wipes a computer's, phone's, etc. memory, it removes all the data from the memory:

The virus wipes the memory of any computer that downloads the file.