wipe

Fascists are doomed to failure because queerness cannot be eradicated, despite any Quiet Pride or clampdown effort, unless you wipe out humanity itself.

But when wasting disease in effect wiped out their main predator, the sea urchins exploded in number, decimating kelp forests and transforming once-lush underwater habitats into so-called urchin barrens.

"It means I can see Sara in her," she says, wiping away a tear.

That night, standing with Amy in a dark, abandoned prison, I felt my heart race and I wiped my sweaty palms again and again on my shirt to keep the grip on my flashlight.

"He was hit in the head and the wound was deep, his brain came out," she says, wiping tears from her eyes.