Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: obliterate
IPA transcription: [əbl'ɪtɚ,eɪt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: blotted_out, obliterate, obliterated
    Meaning: reduced to nothingness
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: kill, obliterate, wipe_out
    Meaning: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
  • Synonyms: obscure, blot_out, obliterate, veil, hide
    Meaning: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
  • Synonyms: obliterate, efface
    Meaning: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
Usage examples
  • Then, I said, we shall have to obliterate many obnoxious passages, beginning with the verses,
  • Now, when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Obliterate the etchings Too costly for repairs.
  • I had no other purpose in view but to restore calm to her mind, and to obliterate the bad opinion which the unworthy Steffani had given her of men in general.
  • Women, men, children--all were herded together, for one day, perhaps two, and a night or so, and then death would obliterate the petty annoyances, the womanly blushes caused by this sordid propinquity.