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

1. transitive verb. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
2. transitive 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.
3. adjective. Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
4. verb. remove completely from recognition or memory

   "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

   Synonyms: efface

5. verb. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

   "a hidden message"

   "a veiled threat"

   Synonyms: hide, obscure, veil

6. verb. do away with completely, without leaving a trace
7. verb. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

   "kill these lines in the President's speech"

   Synonyms: kill

8. adjective. reduced to nothingness

   Synonyms: obliterated

Synonyms

efface, hide, obscure, veil, kill, obliterated

Common word forms

obliterated, obliterates, obliterating

Words from these letters

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