Definition of Obliterating

1. Verb. (present participle of obliterate) ¹

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Definition of Obliterating

1. obliterate [v] - See also: obliterate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obliterating

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

Literary usage of Obliterating

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

1. Law of Wills, Executors and Administrators by James Schouler (1915)
"Cancelling, obliterating, etc., illustrated: English Cases. A more equivocal act is the mere defacement of the instrument by cancelling, obliterating, ..."

2. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman (1844)
"By Burning, Cancelling, Tearing, or obliterating. THE Statute of Frauds admitted of a will even of free- Revocation by hold estate, being revoked by burning ..."

3. A Treatise on the American Law of Administration by John Gabriel Woerner (1899)
"Revocation by Cancelling, obliterating, Burning, etc. — The power to revoke a will is self-evidently coextensive with, the power to make one. ..."

4. American Law and Procedure by James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews (1910)
"obliterating consists of making written expression illegible. This may be done either by erasing or by blotting out. The preceding remarks on cancellation ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... are absorbed and the radial arrangement is superimposed upon the bilateral features in the adult, without, however, completely obliterating them. Fie. ..."

6. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... and has the effect of obliterating the previous step ; so that, if a mistake has been made, the whole process has to be gone over again. ..."

7. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1879)
"Sculpture above very coarse, punctures large and deep obliterating the intervals (excepting the third which is ..."

8. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... and black flood on whirlpool driven With dark obliterating course, he sate : As if their genii were the ministers Appointed to conduct him to the light ..."

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