Definition of obliterates Obliterates
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What does obliterates mean?
Part of speech
š¤- obliterates, verb, present, 3rd person singular of obliterate (infinitive).
WordNet
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| obliterate - do away with completely, without leaving a trace | ||
| do away with, get rid of, extinguish, eliminate dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood" | ||
| obliterate - remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" | ||
| efface | ||
| slur, dim, blur utter indistinctly | ||
| obliterate - make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" | ||
| obscure, blot out, veil, hide | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| mystify make mysterious; "mystify the story" | ||
| obliterate - mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech" | ||
| kill, wipe out | ||
| take away, take out take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
- obliterate (v. t.)
To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing. - obliterate (v. t.)
To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. - obliterate (a.)
Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary š
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obliterate
ob-litā²Är-Ät, v.t. to blot out, so as not to be readable: to wear out: to destroy: to reduce to a very low state.ān. ObliterÄā²tion, act of obliterating: a blotting or wearing out: extinction.āadj. Oblitā²erÄtive. [L. obliterÄre, -Ätumāob, over, litera, a letter.]
Part of speech
š¤- obliterate, verb, present, 1st person singular of obliterate (infinitive).
- obliterate, verb (infinitive).
