Le mot anglais du jour

wipe

essuyer

Définitions

anglais > français
wipe
1. v. Essuyer.
2. n. Essuyage.
anglais > anglais
wipe
1. v. To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.
I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand.
Tom started to wipe his eyes.
2. v. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
3. v. (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
4. v. (transitive, computing) To erase.
I accidentally wiped my hard drive.
5. v. (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is s
6. v. (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
You should wipe that smirk off your face before the boss comes in.
7. v. To deperm (a ship).
8. n. The act of wiping something.
multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk
9. n. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
10. n. A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
11. n. The lapwing.
12. v. (intransitive, RPG, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.
13. n. (RPG, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
français > anglais
essuyer
1. v. to wipe, to wipe down
2. v. (figuratively) to soak up
A peine nommé, il a essuyé un tweet raciste d'un élu républicain.
3. Paronyms. essayer