obliteratedadj.
/əˈblɪtəreɪtᵻd/, U.S. /əˈblɪdəˌreɪdᵻd/, /oʊˈblɪdəˌreɪdᵻd/ 1. That has been obliterated.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] > effaced, obliterated
cancelled1539
obliterated1611
worn-out1612
obliteratea1631
out-razed1638
erased1848
exscinded1877
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Obliteré, obliterated.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments To Rdr. sig. A2 Hauing found one or two ancient Funerall inscriptions, or obliterated Sepulchers, in this or that Parish Church, I haue ridden to ten Parish Churches distant from that, and not found one.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. ix. 581/1 Stirring up the Latent or almost obliterated ferment of Life.
1863 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (ed. 2) 3 An obliterated manuscript written over again is called a palimpsest.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights I. 186 [They] showed their commonplace and obliterated countenances.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xx. 323 Bellairs could have caught..this hint from an obliterated postmark.
1905 W. James in McClure's Mag. May 3/2 Neither in dress nor in manner did he ever grow quite ‘gentlemanly’ or Salonfähig in the conventional and obliterated sense of the terms.
1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night vii. 133 The introduction was re-written, and the obliterated passages restored, from the author's capacious memory.
1992 Saudi Med. Jrnl. 12 510/1 Thyroglossal cyst is a common neck swelling which develops as a result of gradual accumulation of secretions within an incompletely obliterated thyroglossal duct.
2. U.S. slang. Extremely drunk; high on drugs. Cf. annihilated adj. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [adjective]
intoxicated1576
drunk1585
besotted1831
drugged1871
dopey1896
doped1903
piped1906
lit1912
loaded1923
high1932
polluted1938
stone1945
straight1946
impaired1951
on the nod1951
buzzed1952
stoned1953
hung1958
strung out1959
zonked1959
shot1964
out of (also off) one's bird1966
ripped1966
wiped1966
amped1967
tanked1968
wrecked1968
whacked out1969
wired1970
jagged1973
funked up1976
annihilated1980
junked out1982
obliterated1984
caned1992
wankered1992
twatted1993
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk
drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350
to-drunka1382
as drunk as the devilc1400
sow-drunk1509
fish-drunk1591
swine-drunk1592
gone1603
far gone1616
reeling drunk1620
soda1625
souseda1625
blind1630
full1631
drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652
as full (or tight) as a tick1678
clear1688
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700
as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727
as drunk as a piper1728
blind-drunkc1775
bitch foua1796
blootered1820
whole-seas over1820
three sheets in the wind1821
as drunk as a loon1830
shellaced1881
as drunk as a boiled owl1886
stinking1887
steaming drunk1892
steaming with drink1897
footless1901
legless1903
plastered1912
legless drunk1926
stinko1927
drunk as a pissant1930
kaylied1937
langers1949
stoned1952
smashed1962
shit-faced1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
trashed1966
faced1968
stoned1968
steaming1973
langered1979
annihilated1980
obliterated1984
wankered1992
muntered1998
1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects iii. i. 142 He [sc. a bear] was stoned... Obliterated, wasted, kayoed.
1990 P. Munro Slang U Obliterated, drunk, intoxicated.
1997 in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang II. 700/2 I was totally obliterated last night.
1999 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 June f8 The other night, I got obliterated at a party at my friend's house. Not just drunk—plastered, lit up.
2000 Newsweek (Electronic ed.) 12 June These kids don't tell you they want to get high. They use words like ‘wasted’ and ‘obliterated’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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