wipe up

1. 1.

   to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

   “Mop the hallway now”

   “He mopped her forehead with a towel”

   Synonymsmop upmop

   Broaderabsorb

   Narrowerswabsponge

Questions about wipe up

What does wipe up mean?

wipe up means "to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop".

What is another word for wipe up?

Close synonyms include mop up, mop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wipe up a common word?

wipe up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.