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wipe (someone or something) off the map wipe (someone or something) off the mapTo 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, wipewipe off the mapAlso, 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, wipewipe something off the map obliterate something totally.See also: map, off, something, wipe wipe off the map To destroy completely; annihilate.See also: map, off, wipe |