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wiping

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈwaɪpɪŋ//

The act by which something is wiped.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of wipepresent participle and gerund of wipe

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is wiped.

    multiple wipings of a computer's hard disk

  2. 2

    Material wiped off something.

    analysis of wipings taken from a suspect's hands

  3. 3

    slangA thrashing.

Forms

plural
wipings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).