Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - obliterate
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Obliterate
obliterate
(obliterates, obliterating, obliterated) 1. If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely. Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over... VERB: V n • obliteration ...the obliteration of three isolated rainforests. N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n 2. If you obliterate something such as a memory, emotion, or thought, you remove it completely from your mind. (LITERARY) There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him. = eradicate VERB: V n OBLITERATION see obliterate
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transitive verb (-ated; -ating) Etymology: Latin oblitteratus, past participle of oblitterare, from ob- ob- + littera letter Date: 1600 1. a. to remove utterly from recognition or memory b. to remove from existence ; destroy utterly all trace, indication, or significance of c. to cause to disappear (as a bodily part or a scar) or collapse (as a duct conveying body fluid) ; remove 4 a blood vessel ~d by inflammation 2. to make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or wearing away 3. cancel 4 • obliteration noun • obliterator noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 a blot out; efface, erase, destroy. b leave no clear traces of. 2 deface (a postage stamp etc.) to prevent further use. Derivatives obliteration n. obliterative adj. obliterator n. Etymology: L obliterare (as OB-, litera LETTER) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. стертый; уничтоженный; забытый obliterate tunes —- забытые мелодии 2. слабый, неясный, неотчетливый; едва видимый 3. книж. стирать, удалять, изглаживать; уничтожать; разрушать to obliterate one's footprints —- уничтожать следы to obliterate a salient —- воен. срезать выступ линии фронта time has obliterated many monuments of former greatness —- время уничтожило много памятников былого величия 4. изгонять, изглаживать (из памяти); уничтожать (память о чем-л.) all feelings of hatred had long been obliterated —- чувство ненависти давно прошло 5. отменять; аннулировать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to destroy something so completely that no sign of it remains (The entire village was obliterated by incendiary bombs.) 2 to cover something completely so that it cannot be seen 3 to remove a thought, feeling, or memory from someone's mind (Nothing could obliterate the memory of those tragic events.) - obliteration n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1548, from L. obliteratus, pp. of obliterare "cause to disappear, efface," from ob "against" + litera "letter, script," abstracted from phrase literas scribere "write across letters, strike out letters." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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