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/əblˈɪtərˌeɪt/ Listen

Obliterate

verb

(past & past part. obliterated; pres. part. obliterating)

Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase. Synonyms: kill, wipe out.

Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing. Synonyms: blot out, hide, obscure, veil. "A veiled threat"

Remove completely from recognition or memory. Synonym: efface.

Do away with completely, without leaving a trace.

adjective

Reduced to nothingness. Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated.

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"Obliterate" Quotes from Famous Books

... might clasp, ere closed, the book of fate, And make the writer on a fairer leaf Inscribe our names, or quite obliterate. ...

— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... by the action of the drug, you have experienced the rush of these forces in undiluted strength. They wholly obliterate in you the sense of humour, fancy, imagination,—all that makes for cheerfulness and hope. They seek, though perhaps automatically only, to oust your own thoughts and establish themselves in their place. You are the victim of a psychical invasion. At the same time, ...

— Lords of the Housetops - Thirteen Cat Tales • Various

... serene and steadfast as the Rock of Ages, the one barrier past which the materialists and the scientists cannot go: the divine spark within the human, which no theory can account for and no learning of sage or cynic obliterate. ...

— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page

... indifferent as to what shall be the event of this day. I would not open my mouth upon the occasion, if my life were the only thing that was at stake. It is not in the power of your decision to restore to me my unblemished reputation, to obliterate the disgrace I have suffered, or to prevent it from being remembered that I have been brought to examination upon a charge of murder. Your decision can never have the efficacy to prevent the miserable remains of my existence from being the most ...

— Caleb Williams - Things As They Are • William Godwin

... searching in vain for words with which to obliterate such a false impression. "Anything ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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