| 单词 | obliterate |
| 释义 | obliterate (əblɪtəreɪt ) Word forms: obliterates , obliterating , obliterated 1. verb If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely. Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over. [VERB noun] Whole villages were obliterated by fire. [VERB noun] Synonyms: destroy, eliminate, devastate, waste obliteration (əblɪtəreɪʃən ) uncountable noun ...the obliteration of three isolated rainforests. [+ of] Synonyms: wiping out, elimination, eradication, blotting out Synonyms: destruction, ruin, wiping out, elimination 2. verb If you obliterate something such as a memory, emotion, or thought, you remove it completely from your mind. [literary] There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him. [VERB noun] Collocations: obliterate a memory It supposedly obliterates all memory of that offence. Times, Sunday Times We have obliterated the memory. Times, Sunday Times He later said that the constant repetition of this anecdote had obliterated his memory of the actual event. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 抹掉从头脑中 Japanese: 破壊する |
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