单词 | obliterated |
释义 | obliterated (once / 1807 pages) adj Something that's obliterated is gone. If your dreams of becoming a trapeze artist are completely obliterated after your first two difficult weeks at circus school, maybe you can switch to clowning. Obliterated comes from the Latin phrase literas scribere, meaning strike or cross out letters. When something is obliterated, it disappears or is so damaged, you can barely recognize it. It might be literally wiped out, like a house obliterated by fire, or figuratively destroyed, like your obliterated hopes of marrying your favorite movie star someday. 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) By the time we arrived, at 5 p.m., a blizzard obliterated visibility. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) She shared her fear of the nightly bombings, tweeted photos of obliterated buildings and chronicled the quiet moments spent with her little siblings. Washington Post(Dec 06, 2016) adj reduced to nothingness Syn blotted out, obliterate destroyed spoiled or ruined or demolished |
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