Dictionary Entry
obliterate
obliterate is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
- 2transitive verb
To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
- 3adjective
Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
- 4verb
remove completely from recognition or memory
"efface the memory of the time in the camps"
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- 5verb
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
"a hidden message"
"a veiled threat"
- 6verb
do away with completely, without leaving a trace
- 7verb
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
"kill these lines in the President's speech"
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- 8adjective
reduced to nothingness
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