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obliterating


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Obliterate  \Ob*lit"er*ate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Obliterated}; 
  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Obliterating}.]  [L.  obliteratus  p.  p.  of 
  obliterare  to  obliterate;  ob  (see  {Ob-})  +  litera,  littera, 
  letter.  See  {Letter}.] 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  obliterating 
  adj  :  making  undecipherable  or  imperceptible;  "obliterating  mists; 
  "an  obscurant  bank  of  clouds"  [syn:  {obscurant}] 




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