Meaning of OBLITERATE
| Pronunciation: | | u'blitu`reyt
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- [adj] reduced to nothingness
- [v] remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
- [v] make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- [v] do away with completely, without leaving a trace
- [v] mark for deletion, rub off, or erase, as of writings; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
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| | Synonyms: | | blot out, blotted out, destroyed, efface, hide, kill, obliterated, obscure, wipe out |
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| | See Also: | | alter, blur, change, dim, do away with, eliminate, get rid of, slur, take away, take out | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Ob*lit"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obliterated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Obliterating}.] [L. obliteratus, p. p. of
obliterare to obliterate; ob (see {Ob-}) + litera, littera,
letter. See {Letter}.]
1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable,
as a writing.
2. To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to
render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to
obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that
experience are slowly obliterated. --W. Black.
\Ob*lit"er*ate\, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
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| | Related Terms: | | absolve, annihilate, black out, blot, blot out, cancel, consign to oblivion, cross out, declare a moratorium, dele, delete, destroy, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, forgive, kill, nullify, raze, rub out, rule out, scratch, scratch out, sponge, sponge out, strike off, strike out, wipe out, write off |
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