[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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
obliterate
adj 1: reduced to nothingness [syn: blotted out, obliterate,
obliterated]
v 1: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in
the President's speech" [syn: kill, obliterate, wipe
out]
2: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or
concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn:
obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide]
3: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the
memory of the time in the camps" [syn: obliterate,
efface]
4: do away with completely, without leaving a trace
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