obliterated
- adjective
- /əˈblɪtəˌreɪtɪd/
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aniquilado
- The entire village was obliterated by the devastating flood, leaving no trace behind.
Well, melatonin, the hormone of darkness, right, is essentially obliterated by light, by sunlight.
- Well, melatonin, the hormone of darkness, right, is essentially obliterated by light, by sunlight.
- And when I eventually come off, long and short of it is it obliterated my immune system.
- Two hits and the plan is totally obliterated.
- You can certainly do it with psychedelics, where it's just your capacity for language has been obliterated and yet you're all too conscious.
- Now, with time, this event was all but obliterated from official North Carolina history and National History.
- Ancient civilizations rise and fall and have been obliterated during the times that that we've gone through these big, these big shifts.
- We just, we were absolutely obliterated by Triangle of Sadness this year.
Examples
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So very famous apartments like the Painted Chamber, like the House of Lords Chamber, were completely obliterated by this fire.
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Ancient civilizations rise and fall and have been obliterated during the times that that we've gone through these big, these big shifts.
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The vegetation is literally obliterated, and today it looks quite different than this.
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If that is obliterated, she's got nowhere to go.
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All the triumphant sensations of national glory seem almost obliterated by general depression.
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You're in a completely obliterated truck that is on fire, and what you're doing is telling Hyah what's going on.
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That's just that's, that's gone, that's obliterated, which just speaks to the the need for more vigilance among parents.
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After the explosion, the building was completely obliterated, and all that remained were ashes.
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The ancient ruins were obliterated by time, erasing any evidence of the civilization that once thrived there.
Synonyms
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Completely destroyed by fire so nothing remains but burned pieces
Completely destroyed so nothing is left
Completely covered or removed so nothing remains
A building that has been torn down and broken up
Very badly damaged and no longer usable, often after a war or storm
Antonyms
How Destroyed
Surface Forms
Morphology
obliterated = obliterate (transparent) = obliterate + ed
A regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'obliterate'; the meaning is directly derived from the verb.
Etymology
Obliterated comes from Latin parts ob- 'over' or 'away' and littera 'letter', the same root as the English word letter. It first meant 'to erase letters' on a page, so now to obliterate something is to wipe it out completely.