wipe

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To subject to light rubbing or friction, as with a cloth or paper, in order to clean or dry.
• transitive verb To clean or dry by rubbing.
• transitive verb To rub, move, or pass (a cloth, for example) over a surface.
• transitive verb To remove by or as if by rubbing.
• transitive verb To blot out completely, as from the memory.
• transitive verb To spread or apply by or as if by wiping.
• transitive verb To form (a joint) in plumbing by spreading solder with a piece of cloth or leather.
• noun The act or an instance of wiping.
• noun Something, such as a towel or tissue, used for wiping.
• noun A cam that activates another part; a wiper.
• noun A blow or swipe.
• noun Informal A jeer; a gibe.
• noun A transition from one scene in a film or movie to another, effected by means of a line passing across the screen.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To rub or stroke with or on something, especially a soft cloth, for cleaning; clean or dry by gently rubbing, as with a towel.
• To remove by or as by gently rubbing with or on something, especially a cloth; hence, with away, off, or out, to remove, efface, or obliterate.
• Figuratively, to cleanse, as from evil practices or abuses; clear, as of disadvantage or superfluity.
• To cheat; defraud; trick.
• To stroke or strike gently; tap.
• To beat; chastise.
• In plumbing, to apply (solder) without the use of a soldering-iron, by allowing the solder to cool into a semi-fluid condition, and then applying it by wiping it over the part to be soldered by the use of a pad of leather or cloth. See wiping, 2.
• To make strokes with a rubbing or sweeping motion.
• noun Same as weep.
• noun The act or process of wiping clean or dry; a sweeping stroke of one thing over another; a rub; a brush.
• noun A quick or hard stroke; a blow, literally or figuratively; a cut: now regarded as slang.
• noun The mark of a blow or wound; a scar; a brand.
• noun Something used in wiping; specifically, a handkerchief.
• noun plural A fence of brushwood.
• noun Same as wiper, 3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The lapwing.
• transitive verb To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing.
• transitive verb To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.
• transitive verb obsolete To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.
• transitive verb (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 shaped by rubbing.
• transitive verb [Old Slang] to cheat.
• noun Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
• noun Low A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.
• noun A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
• noun Thieves' Cant or Slang A handkerchief.
• noun obsolete Stain; brand.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (cf. rub)
• verb transitive, computing To erase.
• noun A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
• noun 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.