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Definitions for obliterate
əˈblɪt əˌreɪtoblit·er·ate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. blotted out, obliterate, obliteratedverb

    reduced to nothingness

  2. kill, obliterate, wipe outverb

    mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

    "kill these lines in the President's speech"

  3. obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hideverb

    make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

    "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"

  4. obliterate, effaceverb

    remove completely from recognition or memory

    "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

  5. obliterateverb

    do away with completely, without leaving a trace

Wiktionary

  1. obliterateverb

    To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.

  2. Etymology: From oblitteratus, perfect passive participle of oblittero, from oblino.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To OBLITERATEverb

    Etymology: oblitero, ob and litera, Latin.

    Wars and desolations obliterate many ancient monuments. Matthew Hale, Origin of Mankind.

    Let men consider themselves as ensnared in that unhappy contract, which has rendered them part of the Devil’s possession, and contrive how they may obliterate that reproach, and disentangle their mortgaged souls. Decay of Piety.

    These simple ideas, the understanding can no more refuse to have, or alter, or blot them out, than a mirrour can refuse, alter, or obliterate the images, which the objects set before it produce. John Locke.

Wikipedia

  1. Obliterate

    Obliterate is a grindcore band from Košice. Founded in 1992, it became one of the first bands of this genre in Slovakia.

ChatGPT

  1. obliterate

    To obliterate means to completely destroy or eradicate something, leaving no trace behind. It can also refer to the act of making something invisible or unrecognizable, often through very thorough or violent means. This can apply to physical objects, concepts, or even emotions and memories.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Obliterateverb

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

  2. Obliterateverb

    to wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity

  3. Obliterateadjective

    scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects

  4. Etymology: [L. obliteratus, p. p. of obliterare to obliterate; ob (see Ob-) + litera, littera, letter. See Letter.]

Wikidata

  1. Obliterate

    Obliterate is a grindcore band from Košice. Founded in 1992, as one of the first band of this genre in Slovakia

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Obliterate

    ob-lit′ėr-āt, v.t. to blot out, so as not to be readable: to wear out: to destroy: to reduce to a very low state.—n. Obliterā′tion, act of obliterating: a blotting or wearing out: extinction.—adj. Oblit′erātive. [L. obliterāre, -ātumob, over, litera, a letter.]

Entomology

  1. Obliterate

    nearly washed out; indistinct.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of obliterate in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of obliterate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of obliterate in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or different civilizations, this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it.

  2. Donald Trump:

    This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or different civilizations, this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life, and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it. This is a battle between good and evil.

  3. Joan Didion:

    Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

  4. Cervantes:

    There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain which death doth not put an end to.

  5. Erik Pevernagie:

    Our memory consists of bits and pieces which have made their imprint on our dreams and our life. All those fragments have enlightened or darkened the sky and the horizon of our existence. They are all instances that we don't want to forget or splinters that we can't obliterate. The mind collects them and by recalling, interpreting or idealizing them, the actuality very often becomes corroded. We experience then a "mutilated memory".--

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