to obliterate

Definition of to obliterate in English English dictionary: efface; outraze; To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy; to cause to disappear; {v} to blot out, efface, rase, destroy; remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"; Scarcely distinct; applied to the markings of insects; make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"; If you obliterate something such as a memory, emotion, or thought, you remove it completely from your mind. There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him. = eradicate; reduced to nothingness; To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing; To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as; do away with completely, without leaving a trace; If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely. Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over + obliteration oblit·era·tion the obliteration of three isolated rainforests; {f} erase; destroy; to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity; remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" do away with completely, without leaving a trace; mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"

to obliterate

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to ob·lit·er·ate

tı ıblîtıreyt

/tə əˈblətərˌāt/ /tə əˈblɪtɜrˌeɪt/

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