Wipe

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:

    Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
    Paul De Man (1919–1983)

    “The best way to hate is the worst.
    ‘Tis to find what the hated need,
    Never mind of what actual worth,
    And wipe that out of the earth.
    Let them die of unsatisfied greed....”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Those who in quarrels interpose,
    Must often wipe a bloody nose.
    John Gay (1685–1732)