wiped out

Meaning

This is a casual expression meaning to be extremely tired or completely exhausted, usually after intense physical exertion, a long day of travel, or a demanding activity. It can also mean to be completely destroyed or eliminated in other contexts, but in daily life, it almost always refers to physical fatigue.

Examples

• That five-mile run in the morning completely wiped me out.

  That five-mile run in the morning completely wiped me out.

• I was so wiped out after the flight that I fell asleep with my shoes on.

  I was so wiped out after the flight that I fell asleep with my shoes on.

• Moving all that furniture left us totally wiped out.

  Moving all that furniture left us totally wiped out.

• Are you guys wiped out, or do you want to grab some dinner?

  Are you guys wiped out, or do you want to grab some dinner?

• The kids were wiped out after spending the entire afternoon at the beach.

  The kids were wiped out after spending the entire afternoon at the beach.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ I am wiping out after the gym.

  ✓ I am wiped out after the gym.

  'Wiped out' is used as an adjective to describe the state of exhaustion. 'Wiping out' means falling or crashing (e.g., on a surfboard or bicycle).

• ✗ The hot weather wiped out me.

  ✓ The hot weather wiped me out.

  When using 'wipe out' transitively with a pronoun object (like 'me', 'him', 'us'), the pronoun must go between 'wipe' and 'out'.

Related Expressions

Practice

• I was completely ___ after running that half-marathon.

  💡 Exhausted after physical exertion.

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  wiped out

• We were totally ___ by the time we finished moving all the furniture.

  💡 Extremely tired after hard physical work.

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  wiped out