Wipe
Wipe means to clean a surface by rubbing something on it, but it's used in other contexts:
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Famous quotes containing the word wipe:
“Gloucester. O, let me kiss that hand!
Lear. Let me wipe it first, it smells of mortality.
Gloucester. O ruined piece of nature! This great world
Shall so wear out to nought.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I know. Thats what makes us tough. Rich fellows come up and they die. Their kids aint no good and they die out. But we keepa comin. Were the people that live. They cant wipe us out. They cant lick us. Well go on forever, Pa, cause were the people.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)
“Those who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.”
—John Gay (16851732)