obliterate
v.
erase; destroy
Obliterate
obliterate
Verb
1. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
(synonym) kill, wipe out
(hypernym) take away, take out
(derivation) eradication, obliteration
2. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
(synonym) obscure, blot out, veil, hide
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
3. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
(synonym) efface
(hypernym) blur, dim, slur
(derivation) eradication, obliteration
4. do away with completely, without leaving a trace
(hypernym) eliminate, get rid of, do away with
(derivation) eradication, obliteration
Adjective
1. reduced to nothingness
(synonym) blotted out, obliterated
(similar) destroyed
obliterare
v.
obliterate, cancel, erase, stamp
Obliterate
(v. t.)
To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
(v. t.)
To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
(a.)
Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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