Past tense of wipe; to clean or dry a surface by rubbing with cloth or hand.
From Old English 'wipian,' Germanic root. Related to Old Saxon 'wipian.' The meaning has remained consistent for over a thousand years.
Wiping is so fundamental to humans that babies learn it early and it's one of our first purposeful hand actions—it's arguably more basic than pointing!
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