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OBLITERATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduced to nothingness
Synonyms:
blotted out; obliterate; obliterated
Classified under:
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb obliterate
Context examples:
Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Here, once again, was the mark of the bicycle, though nearly obliterated by the hoofs of cows.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog's-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
