wiped

The young man took out his handkerchief and wiped his brow.

Anne dropped the apple as if it were a red-hot coal and ostentatiously wiped her fingers on her handkerchief.

At the same time her own tears fell thick and fast at the joy of meeting her old friend again, and these tears did not need to be wiped away.

As for the Lion, he wiped his eyes so often with the tip of his tail that it became quite wet, and he was obliged to go out into the courtyard and hold it in the sun till it dried.