The phrase "an attempt to wipe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to remove or eliminate something, such as data, memories, or evidence.
Example: "The hacker made an attempt to wipe the server's data before being detected."
Alternatives: "an effort to erase" or "a bid to eliminate".
(No surprise in a country where not so long ago, in an attempt to wipe out "counter-revolutionary influences," government policy was to kill anyone wearing glasses).
Some observers, he notes, call what has happened in Zimbabwe "politicide": "As genocide is an attempt to wipe out an ethnic group, so politicide is the practice of wiping out an entire political movement".
The project is an attempt to wipe out dengue, which infects at least fifty million people a year — and for which there is neither a treatment or a cure.
For the past 15 years or so Colombia has used crop-dusting planes operated by American contractors to spray around 130,000 hectares (321,000 acres) a year of its land with glyphosate, a powerful weedkiller, in an attempt to wipe out the coca crop that provides the raw material for cocaine.
During his time in the Maze he became leader of the Ulster Freedom Fighters; in 1988 he charged an IRA funeral throwing grenades and firing his pistol in an attempt to wipe out all the top Republicans in one go; in the early 80s he even tried to "cap" Ken Livingstone (as I believe the phrase is) on the tube.
I decided to try something completely new as a postdoctoral fellow in an attempt to wipe the slate clean and start over.
In a series of press conferences in Switzerland in 2005, Perinçek repeatedly blamed "imperialists from the west and from Tsarist Russia" for stoking tensions between Muslims and Armenians in order to undermine the Ottoman Empire, and said the resulting deaths were not a premeditated attempt to wipe out an ethnic group.
But many saw it as a concerted attempt to wipe out a million MDC votes.
But the Shoah – along with the Porajmos, the Nazi extermination of the Roma people – was unique as an industrialised, systematic attempt to wipe out an entire people.
In a move reminiscent of some of the excesses of Vietnam, the military has taken to dropping 500-pound bombs and sending out M-1 tanks in a largely futile attempt to wipe out elusive foes.
By the time she gets to that idea, she seems out of breath; she offers little more than a cursory review of the existing literature, with brief and implausible suggestions as to how a single state of equal citizens might actually come about.Meron Benvenisti's "Son of the Cypresses" is also a tirade against Israel's attempt to wipe the Palestinians from the map both physically and historically.
