Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of obliterate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. destroyed so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable or imperceptible.
- adj. made illegible or imperceptible by erasing or abrading away; -- of writing or surface designs on objects.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. reduced to nothingness
Examples
“For someone who has made a career out of telling everyone how much more tolerant the world would be if only religion were obliterated from the human psyche, Dawkins manages to appear remarkably intolerant towards anyone who disagrees with him.”
“The manner in which the Dodo were obliterated from the surface of the earth has left a lasting impact on the natural history of our global eco-system: in fact a lesson in extinction to humanity.”
“Although almost entirely obliterated from the performing arts canon today, it is clear that these performances required an exceptional command over rhetoric, delivery, mimicry, ventriloquism and spontaneous composition.”
“Like the sun shadowed by an eclipse which happened on Wednesday, March 29 and was partially visible in the Palestinian skies, the Land Day event was obliterated from the news-spheres the next day.”
“These men and women loved America and understood who the enemy was and why the enemy had to be not only defeated but obliterated from the face of the earth.”
“The 110-point margin obliterated the previous record, a 92-point win over Hawaii Pacific in 1985.”
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“He left a huge gap, a whole grove of empty plinths with his name obliterated from each, herms with their genitalia hammered off.”
“In Rupert Brooke the inspiration of the call obliterated the last trace of dilettante youth's pretensions, and he encountered darkness like a bride, and greeted the unseen death not with a cheer as a peril to be boldly faced, but as a great consummation, the supreme safety.”
“He told the Austrians they must submit without fighting or be obliterated from the air.”
“I shall not have your name obliterated in the usual manner '-- they cut it out and put in a fresh bit of wood, and charge you a bob --' this time.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘obliterated’.
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My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
zen, poser, savvy, angst, flustered, bitter, whatsoever, farfetched, indeed, scenario, inevitable, salvage and 134 more...
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You Broke It!
After the school bully breaks your new yo-yo, you can use these words to describe it. All hail the carnage!
broken, faulty, slipshod, weak, destroyed, dismantled, busted, cracked, chipped, bent, shattered, irreparable and 147 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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Words I like and know of their meanin...
zenith, anathema, maelstrom, sardonic, juxtapose, belladonna, facade, rigor mortis, fiasco, chimera, gallivant, archaic and 64 more...
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fun to say
words simply fun to say and hear
avariciousness, lackadaisically, succinctly, languish, solicitousness, reverie, eviscerated, prestidigitation, squall, squanderer, contemporaneously, topographical and 54 more...
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Margie - City of Bones Cassandra Claire
City of Bones By. Cassandra Claire
hoisted, shrugged, abruptly, slender, limbs, clad, beckoning, sauntered, smudged, defeated, despised, invaders and 31 more...
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simple & useful 14
fabrication, parapet, transverse, erecting, dimpled, blistering, epoxy, scrubbable, immersion, puttying, sandpapered, stippled and 65 more...
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There's a glass of punch below your f...
buzzed, tanked, drunk, smashed, trashed, puzzled, tore up, wasted, lubricated, tipsy, obliterated, tossed and 21 more...
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New Words
margarine, interstitial, sanctum sanctorum, uber sexual, uber, quandary, agnostic, lorem ipsum, proliferate, intuitive, association, oblivion and 19 more...
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Hot Descriptors
neon, typeractive, chintzy, stilted, antagonistic, scrawny, saccharine, mushrooms, blossoms, blooms, fierce, raven and 26 more...
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favorite words from "house of leaves"
it's cheating but i also added phrases that i especially liked. my apologies to any Wordie Purists out there.
ensuing, deracinated, snarls, impenetrable, obliterated, lunacy, subsurface, graphomaniac, needlessly compli..., pointlessly obtuse, prolix, ridiculously conc... and 39 more...
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Margie - City of Bones - Cassandra Cl...
hoisted, shrugged, abruptly, slender limbs, clad, beckoning, sauntered, smudged, defeated, despised, invaders, rummaging and 30 more...
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