Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is wipe off the face of the earth and its meaning is “to eliminate, remove or destroy (someone or something) completely”.
Example Sentence: Cyclone Amphan has turned Kolkata’s famed Botanic Garden into a ‘graveyard’. Today, the botanical garden is counting ‘dead bodies’. On May 20, Cyclone Amphan tore through its 273-acre spread — containing 15,000 plants belonging to 1,300 species — felling hundreds of trees. “It’s a hotchpotch at the moment,” says Dr. Kanad Das, the garden’s joint director and head of office. For when it reopens, it will no longer look the same. It’s like the botanical equivalent of the Taj Mahal being wiped off the face of earth. For it to look the way it did until May 20, it could take another 200 years.
This word is present in The Hindu National Page article The sorrow of fallen trees and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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