To destroy.
1881. Many of the officers went away saying, “We will come by-and-by, and wipe you out.”—George A. Smith at Logan, Utah, Sept. 10: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ix. 112.
1862. [Many good people] are anxious that the war shall be made the occasion of wiping slavery out.—Mr. O. H. Browning of Illinois, U.S. Senate, March 10: Cong. Globe, p. 1137/3.
1888. Mexican authorities are taking all possible measures to wipe out Bernal’s band of outlaws.—Missouri Republican, Feb. 22 (Farmer).
1911. After an inquiry into the disaster at Austin, Pa., where some eighty persons were killed and a village wiped out, the coroner’s jury has returned a verdict of gross negligence against [certain officials].—N.Y. Ev. Post, Nov. 27, p. 4/7.
