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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
obliterates, obliterating, obliterated |
| definition 1: |
to erase or make unrecognizable by erasing.
Harsh weather had obliterated the statue's features.- synonyms:
- erase, expunge
- similar words:
- blank, deface, delete, efface, rub out, wipe out
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| definition 2: |
to destroy entirely.
The bomb nearly obliterated the city.- synonyms:
- annihilate, eradicate, wipe out
- antonyms:
- create, perpetuate
- similar words:
- abolish, blot out, demolish, destroy, devastate, efface, end, exterminate, extirpate, level, ravage, raze, ruin, snuff out, wreck
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| related words: |
abrogate, blot, blot out, consume, cross, eliminate, erase, liquidate, massacre, remove, stamp |
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| derivation: |
obliteration (n.) |
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