Definition of Obliterate

1. Verb. Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase. "Kill these lines in the President's speech"

Exact synonyms: Kill, Wipe Out
Generic synonyms: Take Away, Take Out
Derivative terms: Obliterable, Obliteration, Wipeout

2. Adjective. Reduced to nothingness.
Exact synonyms: Blotted Out, Obliterated
Similar to: Destroyed

3. Verb. Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing. "A veiled threat"
Exact synonyms: Blot Out, Hide, Obscure, Veil
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Related verbs: Efface
Specialized synonyms: Mystify
Derivative terms: Hiding, Obliterable

4. Verb. Remove completely from recognition or memory. "Efface the memory of the time in the camps"
Exact synonyms: Efface
Generic synonyms: Blur, Dim, Slur
Related verbs: Blot Out, Hide, Obscure, Veil
Derivative terms: Obliteration, Obliteration

5. Verb. Do away with completely, without leaving a trace.

Definition of Obliterate

1. v. t. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

2. a. Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

Definition of Obliterate

1. Verb. To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Obliterate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Medical Definition of Obliterate

1. Scarcely distinct; applied to the markings of insects. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obliterate

obliquely
obliqueness
obliquenesses
obliquer
obliques
obliquest
obliquid
obliquing
obliquities
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obliquus capitis inferior
obliquus capitis superior
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obliterans
obliterate (current term)
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obliteratingly
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obliteratively
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obliterators
obliviate
obliviated

Literary usage of Obliterate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"Side streams entering a trunk river at different points tend to confuse the high water wave, but fail to obliterate it. While a particle of ice requires ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"... and, by a single application of the tampon, obtain an impression of the right character, and, with same movement, obliterate the wrong one. ..."

3. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Apostles' creed, Edward Burton (1847)
"Nay those who strive most to deny a God, and to obliterate all sense of a Divinity out of their own souls, have not been least sensible of this remembrancer ..."

4. Principles of Political Economy by Simon Newcomb (1885)
"In order not to obliterate in time mind of the reader time distinction between the scientific and time practical sides of time subject, all questions of ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"plates or sheets does not obliterate these cells, but merely modifies them, as they widen out under the pressure; the thin partitions become laminated, ..."

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