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/əblˈɪtərˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Obliterate v. t. (past & past part. obliterated; pres. part. obliterating)

To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

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."

adjective

obliterated adj.

Destroyed so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable or imperceptible.

Synonyms: wiped out, obliterate.

Made illegible or imperceptible by erasing or abrading away; of writing or surface designs on objects.

Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated.

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Etymology of 'Obliterated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Obliterated" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the serpent, which, as already stated, is 300 feet long, was found, beneath the peat moss, to be formed by a careful adjustment of stones, the formation of which probably prevented the structure from being obliterated by time and ...

— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

... fired missiles from the Gulf of Mexico. Four were immediately sunk, but too late. New Orleans, St. Louis and three Air Force bases were obliterated ...

— The Next Logical Step • Benjamin William Bova

... entrance to the famous catacomb of St. Callixtus, one of the most interesting of all, was found by the Cavaliere de Rossi; and it was only in the spring of 1855 that the buried church and catacomb of St. Alexander on the Nomentan Way were brought to light. Earthquakes, floods, and neglect have obliterated the openings of many of these ancient cemeteries,—and the hollow soil of the Campagna is full "of hidden graves, which men walk over without knowing ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

... with a soldier leading his staid old mule. Bukhayt Ahmar and several of the soldiers were laid up; Ahmed Kaptan was incapacitated for work by an old and inveterate hernia, the effect, he said, of riding his violent little beast; and a sound ague and fever, which continued three days, obliterated in my own case the last evils of Karlsbad. We had one night of rain (January 15), beginning gently at 2.30 a.m., and ending in a heavy downfall—unfortunately a pluviometer was one of the forgotten articles. ...

— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton

... that she never liked my being named after Billy Crafford (for so she pronounced his name) for whom the partiality of my father caused him to name me. Few remain to remember the horrors of this partisan warfare. The very traditions are being obliterated by those of the recent civil war, so rife with scenes and deeds sufficiently horrible for the appetite of the curious ...

— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

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