OBLITERATE
\əblˈɪtəɹˌe͡ɪt], \əblˈɪtəɹˌeɪt], \ə_b_l_ˈɪ_t_ə_ɹ_ˌeɪ_t]\
Definitions of OBLITERATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
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remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
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make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
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Scarcely distinct; - applied to the markings of insects.
By Oddity Software
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To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
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Scarcely distinct; - applied to the markings of insects.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To efface, as anything written, printed, or engraved; to blot out; to erase; to destroy by time or other means, as from the memory.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Indistinct or profuse ; markings on Insects.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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