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===verb transitive===

[[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἀπομάσσειν]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] [[περιψῆν]].

[[wipe one's nose]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀπομύσσειν]] ([[Plato]], and [[Euripides|Eur.]], ''[[Cyclops]]'' 562; also mid. [[in Aristophanes|Ar]].).

[[sponge]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[σπογγίζειν]]; see also [[clean]].

[[wipe away]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] also [[verse|V.]] [[ἀποψῆν]], [[ἐξομοργνύναι]] (or mid.), [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] [[ἀπομόργνυσθαι]], [[verse|V.]] [[ἐκμάσσειν]]; Met., see [[wipe out]].

[[wipe down]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[καταψῆν]], [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ψήχειν]] (also [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]); see [[rub down]].

[[wipe out]] (Met., [[destroy]]): [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐξαλείφω]], [[ἐξαλείφειν]], [[καθαιρεῖν]], [[ἀφανίζω]], [[ἀφανίζειν]]; see [[destroy]].

[[obliterate]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐξαλείφω]], [[ἐξαλείφειν]], [[ἀφανίζω]], [[ἀφανίζειν]].

[[wipe out a disgrace from another]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἀπολύειν]].

[[wipe out a disgrace from oneself]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἀπολύεσθαι]].

[[I will wipe out from my life the dishonour that awaits one]]: [[verse|V.]] [[δύσκλειαν]] ἣ [[μένει]] μ' [[ἀπώσομαι βίου]] ([[Euripides|Eur.]], ''[[Hercules Furens]]'' 1152).
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