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obliterate verb [ əˈblɪtəreɪt ]

• destroy utterly; wipe out.
• "the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind"
Similar: destroy, wipe out, annihilate, exterminate, extirpate, demolish, eliminate, eradicate, kill, decimate, liquidate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map, zap,
Opposite: create, establish,
Origin: mid 16th century: from Latin obliterat- ‘struck out, erased’, from the verb obliterare, based on littera ‘letter, something written’.


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