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US
/əˈbɫɪtɝˌeɪt/
]
[ UK /əblˈɪtəɹˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /əblˈɪtəɹˌeɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- reduced to nothingness
VERB
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make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
a veiled threat
a hidden message -
remove completely from recognition or memory
efface the memory of the time in the camps - do away with completely, without leaving a trace
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mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
kill these lines in the President's speech
How To Use obliterate In A Sentence
- Daddy was obliterated and the Chief reigned supreme!
- Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over.
- But this light relief could not obliterate the all-pervading sense of crisis, disillusion and frustration in the country.
- The missile strike was devastating - the target was totally obliterated.
- The record has been much deformed, reconstituted, and obliterated during the subsequent Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons.
- She tried to obliterate all memory of her father.
- During World War II, he served with the United States Air Corps ‘Statistical Control,’ where he helped determine the most efficient way to obliterate Japanese cities.
- One round from this could obliterate half the head of anyone of you and still have enough forward motion to continue onward for another 50 feet.
- The lateral leaves of somatopleure then grow round on each side, and, meeting on the ventral aspect of the allantois, enclose the vitelline duct and vessels, together with a part of the extra-embryonic celom; the latter is ultimately obliterated. I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta
- Putting aside the hugely significant issues of the native Americans and African slaves whose rights were obliterated, the United States was built upon the promise of the unassailability of individual rights. THE STORY OF STUFF