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Indistinct; slurred over. [Obs.] "Obscure and oblite mention." Fuller.

To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. W. Black.

The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. Sir. M. Hale.

Tending or serving to obliterate.

To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.

To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.

s by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. -- To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes" Shak. -- To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. -- To burn up, To burn down, to burn entire…

e lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate. A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.…

ning in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

(Bot.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.

able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.

he face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson. So by false learning is goo…

he act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

Adapted to destroy or obliterate. [R.] Evelyn.

The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.