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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obliterate \Ob*lit"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obliterated};
p. pr & vb n. {Obliterating}.] [L. obliteratus p. p. of
obliterare to obliterate; ob (see {Ob-}) + litera, littera,
letter. See {Letter}.]
1. To erase or blot out to efface; to render undecipherable,
as a writing.
2. To wear out to remove or destroy utterly by any means to
render imperceptible; as to obliterate ideas; to
obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that
experience are slowly obliterated. --W. Black.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obliterate \Ob*lit"er*ate\, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
obliterate
adj : reduced to nothingness [syn: {blotted out}, {obliterated}]
v 1: mark for deletion or rule out "kill these lines in the
President's speech" [syn: {kill}, {wipe out}]
2: conceal or hide by covering or intervening [syn: {obscure},
{blot out}, {hide}]
3: wipe out or make dim; "efface a memory" [syn: {wipe}, {efface}]
4: put out or quench, as of fires or lights [syn: {extinguish}]
[ant: {ignite}]
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