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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 storm were obliterated, and no one knew of the scar that Julia carried from that day in her heart. Only a tiny, tiny scar, but enough to remind her now and then with cold terror that even into her Paradise the serpent could thrust his head, enough to prove to her bitter satisfaction that there was already something ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... throughout. From the coincidence in the strange interpretation of Diatessaron, it is clear that the two passages are not independent. Assemani has omitted this interpretation in his translation in both cases, and has thus obliterated the resemblance. ...

— Essays on "Supernatural Religion" • Joseph B. Lightfoot

... to her diction, her soul flowed into it, and she soon found the task of recollecting almost obliterated impressions very interesting. She lived again in the revived emotions of youth, and forgot her present in the retrospect of sorrows that had assumed ...

— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft

... latter being his true name, had the advantage of a very tolerable education, the effects of which were not obliterated by his having been many years addicted to the vilest and most flagitious course of life that can possibly be imagined. The principles with which he had been seasoned in his youth served to render him more tractable and civilized when under ...

— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward

... realized it. Tientsin has always been the gateway to Peking: from there the road to high preferment is easily reached. Yuan Shih-kai marched steadily forward, taking the very first turning-point in a manner which stamped him for many of his compatriots in a way which can never be obliterated. ...

— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale

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