| 单词 | obliterate |
| 释义 | obliterate (once / 1027 pages) vadj When you see obliterate, think of evil alien invaders that zap a planet with a destructive ray. In one blast, the planet and all of the people on it are vaporized. The planet is truly obliterated, or completely wiped out. A long time ago, obliterate had to do with blotting out words on a page. This is why you see the word literate in there. Today it means to erase or destroy completely so that there is nothing left. While you can still obliterate text, you can also obliterate hope, an opponent, or all traces of your presence. Whatever you obliterate is completely gone. WORD FAMILYobliterate: obliterable, obliterated, obliterates, obliterating, obliteratingly, obliteration, obliterator+/obliteration: obliterations USAGE EXAMPLESUsing magnets, they are able to snag just a few of the newly created anti-atoms into a vacuum before they get obliterated by matter. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) Quantum theory suggests a black hole might contain a hidden “firewall” that would obliterate anything that falls in. Science Magazine(Dec 22, 2016) By the time we arrived, at 5 p.m., a blizzard obliterated visibility. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) 1v remove completely from recognition or memory Syn|Hyper efface blot out, hide, obscure, veil make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing blur, dim, slur become vague or indistinct 2v do away with completely, without leaving a trace Hyper do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of terminate, end, or take out 3v mark for deletion, rub off, or erase Syn|Hyper kill, wipe out take away, take out take out or remove 4v make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing Syn|Hypo|Hyper blot out, hide, obscure, veil efface remove completely from recognition or memory mystify make mysterious alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 5adj reduced to nothingness Syn blotted out, obliterated destroyed spoiled or ruined or demolished |
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