Search Result for "obliterate": pronunciation
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (4)

1. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase;
- Example: "kill these lines in the President's speech"
[syn: kill, obliterate, wipe out]

2. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing;
- Example: "a hidden message"
- Example: "a veiled threat"
[syn: obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide]

3. remove completely from recognition or memory;
- Example: "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
[syn: obliterate, efface]

4. do away with completely, without leaving a trace;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. reduced to nothingness;
[syn: blotted out, obliterate, obliterated]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Obliterate \Ob*lit"er*ate\, a. (Zool.)
   Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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