wipes

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They discovered that even though tissue advertising doesn't talk about how well a toilet paper wipes, that is what customers are thinking about.

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  1. transitive verb To subject to light rubbing or friction, as with a cloth or paper, in order to clean or dry.
  2. transitive verb To clean or dry by rubbing: wiped my feet before I went inside.
  3. transitive verb To rub, move, or pass (a cloth, for example) over a surface.
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  • This scene and others are enhanced by split-screen effects designed to give the frames the look of comic book pages and are themselves enhanced by a variety of digital zooms, wipes, and dissolves. —  FSFDec2003
  • He wiped his hands down with a couple of sterilizing wipes, and snapped on some rubber gloves. —  Butcher, Jim - Dead Beat (v1.0) (html).html
  • I'm sure most of us have been there -- a dungeon run that seems a never-ending string of wipes, a PVP group that's unable to stick together long enough to accomplish any objectives, and the inevitable repair bills that arise from a group of players that doesn't quite mesh. —  WoW.com
  • So every raid wipes from time to time, but how these wipes are analyzed differs a lot. —  Tobold's MMORPG Blog
  • These are dry wipes, and they come in a red colored plastic container, which holds 25 wipes. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
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