Definition of Obliterates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of obliterate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Obliterates

1. obliterate [v] - See also: obliterate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obliterates

obliquenesses
obliquer
obliques
obliquest
obliquid
obliquing
obliquities
obliquity
obliquus
obliquus capitis inferior
obliquus capitis superior
obliterable
obliterans
obliterate
obliterated
obliterates (current term)
obliterating
obliterating pericarditis
obliteratingly
obliteration
obliterations
obliterative
obliterative arachnoiditis
obliteratively
obliterator
obliterators
obliviate
obliviated
obliviates
obliviating

Literary usage of Obliterates

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

1. Manual of Coal and Its Topography: Illustrated by Original Drawings, Chiefly by J. Peter Lesley (1856)
"Lamination is perhaps best seen in old slate formations, such as the Cambrian or Silurian, the Hudson River slates, where it obliterates the original planes ..."

2. Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social by William Hurrell Mallock (1898)
"This contradiction if entirely due to the fact that, having first divided the social aggregate into two classes, he then obliterates his division, ..."

3. How to be Saved: A Study of First Principles by Morrison Meade Davis (1914)
"IT obliterates THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD. If infant baptism, from this day, should become universal, and should so continue for a ..."

4. The Tusculan Questions of Marcus Tullius Cicero in Five Books by Marcus Tullius Cicero (1839)
"But, if it obliterates and sweeps us away altogether, what is better than to drop asleep amidst the labours of life, and thus close our eyes in the drowse ..."

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