wipe off the map
wipe (someone or something) off the map
To totally eliminate, eradicate, or destroy someone or something. The president vowed to wipe these terrorist scumbags off the map. Through our vaccination efforts, we've been able to wipe polio off the map.
See also: map, off, wipe
wipe (something) off the map
To obliterate something. The dictator threatened to wipe our country off the map. They believe that the course of treatment they've developed could wipe cancer off the map. Many buildings were wiped off the map during the siege.
See also: map, off, wipe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
wipe off the map
Also, wipe off the face of the earth. Eliminate completely, as in Some day we hope to wipe malaria off the map. This idiom uses wipe in the sense of "obliterate," and map and face of the earth in the sense of "everywhere."
See also: map, off, wipe
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
wipe off the map
To destroy completely; annihilate.
See also: map, off, wipe
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
- wipe (someone or something) off the map
- wipe something off the map
- wipe (someone or something) off the face of the earth
- wipe off the face of the earth
- wipe something off the face of the earth
- wipe (something) off the map
- take an axe to
- wipe
- wipe off
- wipe down