Obliterate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Obliterate \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.


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     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.
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              The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that
              experience are slowly obliterated.    --W. Black.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Obliterate \Ob*lit"er*ate\, a. (Zool.)
     Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obliterate
       adj : reduced to nothingness [syn: {blotted out}, {obliterated}]
       v 1: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in
            the President's speech" [syn: {kill}, {wipe out}]
       2: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or
          concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn: {obscure},
           {blot out}, {veil}, {hide}]
       3: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the
          memory of the time in the camps" [syn: {efface}]
       4: do away with completely, without leaving a trace

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "obliterate":
     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