Definition of obliterate in English:

obliterate

verb əˈblɪtəreɪtəˈblɪdəˌreɪt

[with object]

1Destroy utterly; wipe out.
摧毁；抹除；除掉；消灭
the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind
回忆是如此痛苦，他只得将其从心中彻底抹去。
Example sentencesExamples
- The city was obliterated, over 250,0000 people were killed and generations poisoned by radiation.
- Alternatively, we could face oblivion tomorrow or have to wait 50,000 years before a city is obliterated or the world plunged into cosmic winter beneath a cloud of pulverized rock.
- Which city are they going to threaten to obliterate this time?
- Over a quarter of the city was obliterated, with a dreadful irony removing it from the top of the list of A-bomb targets.
- During World War II, he served with the United States Air Corps ‘Statistical Control,’ where he helped determine the most efficient way to obliterate Japanese cities.
- I want to strike back, pulverise, kill, obliterate anyone who has caused this harm to my city.
- The planet is obliterated in the ensuing explosion.
- When she'd watched her entire town be obliterated by explosives, in order to destroy an out of control infestation of vampires, so many thoughts and feelings had run through her mind.
- Today we do nothing but disseminate corruption in the world; we obliterate and destroy the world.
- Withholding food and resources from fellow humans overseas and then obliterating their cities is no way to conduct the greatest country in the world.
- With their destroyer obliterated the pirates fled in all directions and then regrouped back together to resume their attack.
- Every single one had to be vanquished, killed, destroyed, obliterated, and dead.
- It came to a choice between demonstrating the bomb, or obliterating an actual city.
- He has seen his country crushed under the heel of a ‘liberating’ force which has destroyed its monasteries, killed its religious leaders, and done its best to obliterate its native culture.
- In this prophecy it talks about a key that will destroy and completely obliterate the world.
- At the time he was addressing two recent disasters, an explosion that obliterated a whole area of the city of Enschede and a fire in a bar that killed and mutilated dozens of youths.
- The tried and tested method of surrounding a city, obliterating whatever moves and razing villages to the ground is producing replicas under the cover of silence.
- Napalm was used widely against civilians, and most major cities were obliterated.
- Their capes were vaporized instantly, and the resulting explosions obliterated the backs of their armor.
- Arriving at the outskirts of Brussels the merry band of travellers were aghast to discover that the entire city had been obliterated by a weapon of mass destruction.
Synonyms
destroy, wipe out, annihilate, exterminate, extirpate, demolish, eliminate, eradicate, kill, decimate, liquidate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map
informal zap
1. 1.1 Make invisible or indistinct; conceal or cover.
  使看不见；使模糊；遮盖
  clouds were darkening, obliterating the sun
  云越来越黑，遮住了太阳。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The outline of my pictures and other hanging pieces is faintly discernible on paint soon to be obliterated by a new shade.
  The wind was still, the sky was black with the night and with the thick layer of storm clouds that obliterated the moon.
  It is the ultimate human city, which likes to pretend it has obliterated nature under a blanket of asphalt.
  The lumen of the vestibule could also be obliterated by overlapping undulations that originate from distinct regions in the vestibule.
  This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light.
  While executing their musical duties, the nine members obliterate their identities via different masks and matching uniforms and go by numbers rather than names, starting with #0.
  At first, the idea appeared incredible, yet defense counsel showed how the two cities could be confused if Zurich were approached from the angle it was and clouds obliterated any view of the lake.
  The skies darkened and the heavens opened obliterating any view whatsoever within minutes of us setting off on our travels again!
  The drifting snow obliterated lesser landmarks and covered the boundaries of roads and ditches with a covering several feet thick, making normal travel nigh on impossible.
  Daz nodded, seeming to cheer up slightly - although only marginally, which was evident even in the blistering cold wind and misty clouds obliterating much of our surroundings.
  In this series, vases float atop color fields, but here the vase is partly obliterated, as it is enveloped in smokelike, quivering strokes of black.
  Light clouds or smoke over the target had obliterated Fisher's view for the second time and, true to his orders, he would not jeopardize the civilian population.
  Mean Mr Sun has decided to brightly pop in at just the moment he usually hits my screen - obliterating all view of what's on it.
  She wears a cubical frame on her shoulders (the cage of the title), and it casts a thick black line of shadow that almost obliterates her eyes.
  Across the Berkshire Downs heavy clouds obliterated the moon and unleashed a swirling hailstorm that lashed the dark bills and motorway with an icy deception.
  He appeared to be looking down on an aggressive fire coming up around the edges of the earth, a runaway fire that obliterated his surroundings.
  The entire world of Grimus is engulfed in the closing pages by existentially obliterating mists.
  One teacher remembers his early drawings as ‘scribbles’; others recall rudimentary figures obliterated by cross-hatching.
  On the bright side, the smoke has completely obliterated the sun, and we are no longer baking as if we were inside a giant oven.
  Yet in the shadows of the black sky we didn't see the clouds whipping up over Laos, obliterating the stars, the moon.
  Synonyms
  envelop, surround, swathe, enfold, cover, cover up, conceal, hide, secrete, camouflage, disguise, mask, screen, shield, cloak, blanket, shroud, enwrap, canopy, overlay
2. 1.2 Cancel (something, especially a postage stamp) to prevent further use.
  盖销（尤指邮票）
  the special stamp should be placed on the left-hand side and not be used to obliterate the postage stamp
  Example sentencesExamples
  The stamps affixed are obliterated at the despatching office in a manner to be fixed by our Minister of Finance.
  Synonyms
  erase, eradicate, expunge, efface, blot out, rub out, wipe out, remove all traces of, blank out, block out, delete, strike out, cancel, cross out, ink out, score out

Derivatives

obliterative

adjective əˈblɪtərətɪv

And this fight to the obliterative finish ultimately cannot be a matter of killing people and toppling regimes.
Example sentencesExamples
- Of those 10 humans who developed obliterative bronchiolitis, 4 died and 3 never breathed again without the aid of a respirator.
- The procedure is contraindicated for patients with distal or obliterative disease, and those with combined pelvic and distal obliterative disease.
- We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind.
- None of the patients started on statins during the first postoperative year developed obliterative bronchiolitis as compared with a cumulative incidence of 37% among control patients.

obliterator

noun əˈblɪtəreɪtəəˈblɪdəˌreɪdər

The automated announcer tells you that ‘your ticket must be validated using the obliterators on the platform and failure to do so will result in a fine’ they tell you this after boarding the train.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this show Margo, Alex and Jerry are the obliterators.
- It took writers such as Dostoevsky or Nietzsche, ‘great obliterator [s] of modern false values,’ to stimulate her.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin obliterat- 'struck out, erased', from the verb obliterare, based on littera 'letter, something written'.

Rhymes

alliterate, iterate, transliterate

Definition of obliterate in US English:

obliterate

verbəˈblidəˌrātəˈblɪdəˌreɪt

[with object]

1Destroy utterly; wipe out.
摧毁；抹除；除掉；消灭
the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind
回忆是如此痛苦，他只得将其从心中彻底抹去。
Example sentencesExamples
- Alternatively, we could face oblivion tomorrow or have to wait 50,000 years before a city is obliterated or the world plunged into cosmic winter beneath a cloud of pulverized rock.
- When she'd watched her entire town be obliterated by explosives, in order to destroy an out of control infestation of vampires, so many thoughts and feelings had run through her mind.
- It came to a choice between demonstrating the bomb, or obliterating an actual city.
- He has seen his country crushed under the heel of a ‘liberating’ force which has destroyed its monasteries, killed its religious leaders, and done its best to obliterate its native culture.
- At the time he was addressing two recent disasters, an explosion that obliterated a whole area of the city of Enschede and a fire in a bar that killed and mutilated dozens of youths.
- The planet is obliterated in the ensuing explosion.
- Every single one had to be vanquished, killed, destroyed, obliterated, and dead.
- Over a quarter of the city was obliterated, with a dreadful irony removing it from the top of the list of A-bomb targets.
- Napalm was used widely against civilians, and most major cities were obliterated.
- In this prophecy it talks about a key that will destroy and completely obliterate the world.
- Which city are they going to threaten to obliterate this time?
- With their destroyer obliterated the pirates fled in all directions and then regrouped back together to resume their attack.
- I want to strike back, pulverise, kill, obliterate anyone who has caused this harm to my city.
- Today we do nothing but disseminate corruption in the world; we obliterate and destroy the world.
- The city was obliterated, over 250,0000 people were killed and generations poisoned by radiation.
- Arriving at the outskirts of Brussels the merry band of travellers were aghast to discover that the entire city had been obliterated by a weapon of mass destruction.
- Withholding food and resources from fellow humans overseas and then obliterating their cities is no way to conduct the greatest country in the world.
- Their capes were vaporized instantly, and the resulting explosions obliterated the backs of their armor.
- The tried and tested method of surrounding a city, obliterating whatever moves and razing villages to the ground is producing replicas under the cover of silence.
- During World War II, he served with the United States Air Corps ‘Statistical Control,’ where he helped determine the most efficient way to obliterate Japanese cities.
Synonyms
destroy, wipe out, annihilate, exterminate, extirpate, demolish, eliminate, eradicate, kill, decimate, liquidate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map
1. 1.1 Cause to become invisible or indistinct; blot out.
  使看不见；使模糊；遮盖
  clouds were darkening, obliterating the sun
  云越来越黑，遮住了太阳。
  Example sentencesExamples
  While executing their musical duties, the nine members obliterate their identities via different masks and matching uniforms and go by numbers rather than names, starting with #0.
  One teacher remembers his early drawings as ‘scribbles’; others recall rudimentary figures obliterated by cross-hatching.
  Light clouds or smoke over the target had obliterated Fisher's view for the second time and, true to his orders, he would not jeopardize the civilian population.
  Daz nodded, seeming to cheer up slightly - although only marginally, which was evident even in the blistering cold wind and misty clouds obliterating much of our surroundings.
  The lumen of the vestibule could also be obliterated by overlapping undulations that originate from distinct regions in the vestibule.
  In this series, vases float atop color fields, but here the vase is partly obliterated, as it is enveloped in smokelike, quivering strokes of black.
  At first, the idea appeared incredible, yet defense counsel showed how the two cities could be confused if Zurich were approached from the angle it was and clouds obliterated any view of the lake.
  She wears a cubical frame on her shoulders (the cage of the title), and it casts a thick black line of shadow that almost obliterates her eyes.
  Across the Berkshire Downs heavy clouds obliterated the moon and unleashed a swirling hailstorm that lashed the dark bills and motorway with an icy deception.
  The outline of my pictures and other hanging pieces is faintly discernible on paint soon to be obliterated by a new shade.
  The drifting snow obliterated lesser landmarks and covered the boundaries of roads and ditches with a covering several feet thick, making normal travel nigh on impossible.
  The wind was still, the sky was black with the night and with the thick layer of storm clouds that obliterated the moon.
  It is the ultimate human city, which likes to pretend it has obliterated nature under a blanket of asphalt.
  Yet in the shadows of the black sky we didn't see the clouds whipping up over Laos, obliterating the stars, the moon.
  He appeared to be looking down on an aggressive fire coming up around the edges of the earth, a runaway fire that obliterated his surroundings.
  This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light.
  The entire world of Grimus is engulfed in the closing pages by existentially obliterating mists.
  On the bright side, the smoke has completely obliterated the sun, and we are no longer baking as if we were inside a giant oven.
  Mean Mr Sun has decided to brightly pop in at just the moment he usually hits my screen - obliterating all view of what's on it.
  The skies darkened and the heavens opened obliterating any view whatsoever within minutes of us setting off on our travels again!
  Synonyms
  envelop, surround, swathe, enfold, cover, cover up, conceal, hide, secrete, camouflage, disguise, mask, screen, shield, cloak, blanket, shroud, enwrap, canopy, overlay

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin obliterat- ‘struck out, erased’, from the verb obliterare, based on littera ‘letter, something written’.

单词	obliterate
释义	Definition of obliterate in English: obliterate verb əˈblɪtəreɪtəˈblɪdəˌreɪt [with object] 1Destroy utterly; wipe out. 摧毁；抹除；除掉；消灭 the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind 回忆是如此痛苦，他只得将其从心中彻底抹去。 Example sentencesExamples The city was obliterated, over 250,0000 people were killed and generations poisoned by radiation. Alternatively, we could face oblivion tomorrow or have to wait 50,000 years before a city is obliterated or the world plunged into cosmic winter beneath a cloud of pulverized rock. Which city are they going to threaten to obliterate this time? Over a quarter of the city was obliterated, with a dreadful irony removing it from the top of the list of A-bomb targets. During World War II, he served with the United States Air Corps ‘Statistical Control,’ where he helped determine the most efficient way to obliterate Japanese cities. I want to strike back, pulverise, kill, obliterate anyone who has caused this harm to my city. The planet is obliterated in the ensuing explosion. When she'd watched her entire town be obliterated by explosives, in order to destroy an out of control infestation of vampires, so many thoughts and feelings had run through her mind. Today we do nothing but disseminate corruption in the world; we obliterate and destroy the world. Withholding food and resources from fellow humans overseas and then obliterating their cities is no way to conduct the greatest country in the world. With their destroyer obliterated the pirates fled in all directions and then regrouped back together to resume their attack. Every single one had to be vanquished, killed, destroyed, obliterated, and dead. It came to a choice between demonstrating the bomb, or obliterating an actual city. He has seen his country crushed under the heel of a ‘liberating’ force which has destroyed its monasteries, killed its religious leaders, and done its best to obliterate its native culture. In this prophecy it talks about a key that will destroy and completely obliterate the world. At the time he was addressing two recent disasters, an explosion that obliterated a whole area of the city of Enschede and a fire in a bar that killed and mutilated dozens of youths. The tried and tested method of surrounding a city, obliterating whatever moves and razing villages to the ground is producing replicas under the cover of silence. Napalm was used widely against civilians, and most major cities were obliterated. Their capes were vaporized instantly, and the resulting explosions obliterated the backs of their armor. Arriving at the outskirts of Brussels the merry band of travellers were aghast to discover that the entire city had been obliterated by a weapon of mass destruction. Synonyms destroy, wipe out, annihilate, exterminate, extirpate, demolish, eliminate, eradicate, kill, decimate, liquidate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map informal zap 1.1 Make invisible or indistinct; conceal or cover. 使看不见；使模糊；遮盖 clouds were darkening, obliterating the sun 云越来越黑，遮住了太阳。 Example sentencesExamples The outline of my pictures and other hanging pieces is faintly discernible on paint soon to be obliterated by a new shade. The wind was still, the sky was black with the night and with the thick layer of storm clouds that obliterated the moon. It is the ultimate human city, which likes to pretend it has obliterated nature under a blanket of asphalt. The lumen of the vestibule could also be obliterated by overlapping undulations that originate from distinct regions in the vestibule. This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light. While executing their musical duties, the nine members obliterate their identities via different masks and matching uniforms and go by numbers rather than names, starting with #0. At first, the idea appeared incredible, yet defense counsel showed how the two cities could be confused if Zurich were approached from the angle it was and clouds obliterated any view of the lake. The skies darkened and the heavens opened obliterating any view whatsoever within minutes of us setting off on our travels again! The drifting snow obliterated lesser landmarks and covered the boundaries of roads and ditches with a covering several feet thick, making normal travel nigh on impossible. Daz nodded, seeming to cheer up slightly - although only marginally, which was evident even in the blistering cold wind and misty clouds obliterating much of our surroundings. In this series, vases float atop color fields, but here the vase is partly obliterated, as it is enveloped in smokelike, quivering strokes of black. Light clouds or smoke over the target had obliterated Fisher's view for the second time and, true to his orders, he would not jeopardize the civilian population. Mean Mr Sun has decided to brightly pop in at just the moment he usually hits my screen - obliterating all view of what's on it. She wears a cubical frame on her shoulders (the cage of the title), and it casts a thick black line of shadow that almost obliterates her eyes. Across the Berkshire Downs heavy clouds obliterated the moon and unleashed a swirling hailstorm that lashed the dark bills and motorway with an icy deception. He appeared to be looking down on an aggressive fire coming up around the edges of the earth, a runaway fire that obliterated his surroundings. The entire world of Grimus is engulfed in the closing pages by existentially obliterating mists. One teacher remembers his early drawings as ‘scribbles’; others recall rudimentary figures obliterated by cross-hatching. On the bright side, the smoke has completely obliterated the sun, and we are no longer baking as if we were inside a giant oven. Yet in the shadows of the black sky we didn't see the clouds whipping up over Laos, obliterating the stars, the moon. Synonyms envelop, surround, swathe, enfold, cover, cover up, conceal, hide, secrete, camouflage, disguise, mask, screen, shield, cloak, blanket, shroud, enwrap, canopy, overlay 1.2 Cancel (something, especially a postage stamp) to prevent further use. 盖销（尤指邮票） the special stamp should be placed on the left-hand side and not be used to obliterate the postage stamp Example sentencesExamples The stamps affixed are obliterated at the despatching office in a manner to be fixed by our Minister of Finance. Synonyms erase, eradicate, expunge, efface, blot out, rub out, wipe out, remove all traces of, blank out, block out, delete, strike out, cancel, cross out, ink out, score out Derivatives obliterative adjective əˈblɪtərətɪv And this fight to the obliterative finish ultimately cannot be a matter of killing people and toppling regimes. Example sentencesExamples Of those 10 humans who developed obliterative bronchiolitis, 4 died and 3 never breathed again without the aid of a respirator. The procedure is contraindicated for patients with distal or obliterative disease, and those with combined pelvic and distal obliterative disease. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. None of the patients started on statins during the first postoperative year developed obliterative bronchiolitis as compared with a cumulative incidence of 37% among control patients. obliterator noun əˈblɪtəreɪtəəˈblɪdəˌreɪdər The automated announcer tells you that ‘your ticket must be validated using the obliterators on the platform and failure to do so will result in a fine’ they tell you this after boarding the train. Example sentencesExamples In this show Margo, Alex and Jerry are the obliterators. It took writers such as Dostoevsky or Nietzsche, ‘great obliterator [s] of modern false values,’ to stimulate her. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin obliterat- 'struck out, erased', from the verb obliterare, based on littera 'letter, something written'. Rhymes alliterate, iterate, transliterate Definition of obliterate in US English: obliterate verbəˈblidəˌrātəˈblɪdəˌreɪt [with object] 1Destroy utterly; wipe out. 摧毁；抹除；除掉；消灭 the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind 回忆是如此痛苦，他只得将其从心中彻底抹去。 Example sentencesExamples Alternatively, we could face oblivion tomorrow or have to wait 50,000 years before a city is obliterated or the world plunged into cosmic winter beneath a cloud of pulverized rock. When she'd watched her entire town be obliterated by explosives, in order to destroy an out of control infestation of vampires, so many thoughts and feelings had run through her mind. It came to a choice between demonstrating the bomb, or obliterating an actual city. He has seen his country crushed under the heel of a ‘liberating’ force which has destroyed its monasteries, killed its religious leaders, and done its best to obliterate its native culture. At the time he was addressing two recent disasters, an explosion that obliterated a whole area of the city of Enschede and a fire in a bar that killed and mutilated dozens of youths. The planet is obliterated in the ensuing explosion. Every single one had to be vanquished, killed, destroyed, obliterated, and dead. Over a quarter of the city was obliterated, with a dreadful irony removing it from the top of the list of A-bomb targets. Napalm was used widely against civilians, and most major cities were obliterated. In this prophecy it talks about a key that will destroy and completely obliterate the world. Which city are they going to threaten to obliterate this time? With their destroyer obliterated the pirates fled in all directions and then regrouped back together to resume their attack. I want to strike back, pulverise, kill, obliterate anyone who has caused this harm to my city. Today we do nothing but disseminate corruption in the world; we obliterate and destroy the world. The city was obliterated, over 250,0000 people were killed and generations poisoned by radiation. Arriving at the outskirts of Brussels the merry band of travellers were aghast to discover that the entire city had been obliterated by a weapon of mass destruction. Withholding food and resources from fellow humans overseas and then obliterating their cities is no way to conduct the greatest country in the world. Their capes were vaporized instantly, and the resulting explosions obliterated the backs of their armor. The tried and tested method of surrounding a city, obliterating whatever moves and razing villages to the ground is producing replicas under the cover of silence. During World War II, he served with the United States Air Corps ‘Statistical Control,’ where he helped determine the most efficient way to obliterate Japanese cities. Synonyms destroy, wipe out, annihilate, exterminate, extirpate, demolish, eliminate, eradicate, kill, decimate, liquidate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map 1.1 Cause to become invisible or indistinct; blot out. 使看不见；使模糊；遮盖 clouds were darkening, obliterating the sun 云越来越黑，遮住了太阳。 Example sentencesExamples While executing their musical duties, the nine members obliterate their identities via different masks and matching uniforms and go by numbers rather than names, starting with #0. One teacher remembers his early drawings as ‘scribbles’; others recall rudimentary figures obliterated by cross-hatching. Light clouds or smoke over the target had obliterated Fisher's view for the second time and, true to his orders, he would not jeopardize the civilian population. Daz nodded, seeming to cheer up slightly - although only marginally, which was evident even in the blistering cold wind and misty clouds obliterating much of our surroundings. The lumen of the vestibule could also be obliterated by overlapping undulations that originate from distinct regions in the vestibule. In this series, vases float atop color fields, but here the vase is partly obliterated, as it is enveloped in smokelike, quivering strokes of black. At first, the idea appeared incredible, yet defense counsel showed how the two cities could be confused if Zurich were approached from the angle it was and clouds obliterated any view of the lake. She wears a cubical frame on her shoulders (the cage of the title), and it casts a thick black line of shadow that almost obliterates her eyes. Across the Berkshire Downs heavy clouds obliterated the moon and unleashed a swirling hailstorm that lashed the dark bills and motorway with an icy deception. The outline of my pictures and other hanging pieces is faintly discernible on paint soon to be obliterated by a new shade. The drifting snow obliterated lesser landmarks and covered the boundaries of roads and ditches with a covering several feet thick, making normal travel nigh on impossible. The wind was still, the sky was black with the night and with the thick layer of storm clouds that obliterated the moon. It is the ultimate human city, which likes to pretend it has obliterated nature under a blanket of asphalt. Yet in the shadows of the black sky we didn't see the clouds whipping up over Laos, obliterating the stars, the moon. He appeared to be looking down on an aggressive fire coming up around the edges of the earth, a runaway fire that obliterated his surroundings. This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light. The entire world of Grimus is engulfed in the closing pages by existentially obliterating mists. On the bright side, the smoke has completely obliterated the sun, and we are no longer baking as if we were inside a giant oven. Mean Mr Sun has decided to brightly pop in at just the moment he usually hits my screen - obliterating all view of what's on it. The skies darkened and the heavens opened obliterating any view whatsoever within minutes of us setting off on our travels again! Synonyms envelop, surround, swathe, enfold, cover, cover up, conceal, hide, secrete, camouflage, disguise, mask, screen, shield, cloak, blanket, shroud, enwrap, canopy, overlay Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin obliterat- ‘struck out, erased’, from the verb obliterare, based on littera ‘letter, something written’.
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