wipe out

In the immediate aftermath of January’s Palisades fires, which wiped out more than 6,800 structures and much of the neighborhood’s iconic high school, there was doubt about whether the baseball program would even survive.

But a decade of effort was wiped out in days when a wildfire ripped across the valley earlier this month.

The toxins wiped out the area’s prized trout fishery for years.

A century ago, wolves in the United States were almost wiped out by ranchers who regarded them as lethal enemies.

Back-to-back 66s gave him a two-shot lead to take into Sunday's final round but a double bogey on the first wiped out his advantage.