Word Meanings - OBLITERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing. 2. To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. The harsh and bitter

Additional info about word: OBLITERATE

1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing. 2. To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. W. Black.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBLITERATE)

• Annihilate
• Abolish
• destroy
• bring to nought
• uproot
• eradicate
• nullify
• exterminate
• end
• extinguish
• demolish
• obliterate
• efface
• Annul
• Cancel
• make void
• quash
• revoke
• rescind
• set aside
• abrogate
• abolish
• repeal
• Blot Obscure
• tarnish
• spoil
• sully
• spot
• discolor
• pollute
• erase
• blur
• stain
• blotch
• smear
• smutch
• Blot out
• Erase
• cancel
• expunge
• wipe out
• Bury
• Inter
• inhume
• conceal
• repress
• suppress
• entomb
• compose
• hush

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OBLITERATE)

• Purify
• wash
• cleanse
• absolve
• ornament
• decorate
• emblazon
• signalize
• honor

Related words: (words related to OBLITERATE)

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• BROKERY
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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• BRAZIL NUT
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• INTERAMBULACRUM
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• INTERLACE
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• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
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• INTERCENTRUM
  The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.
• INTERAMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
• INTERMURE
  To wall in; to inclose. Ford.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• BREATHE
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  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
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  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
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• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• CAMBRIC
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• BRASIER; BRAZIER
  An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
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