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"ref": "1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 31, recto:",
"text": "[H]e [Pope Gregory I] deſigned to obliterate and extinguiſh the memorie of Heathen antiquitie and Authors.",
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"ref": "1675, Richard Baxter, “[The First Book.] The First Part: […]. Section XVIII. A Confutation of Dr. Twisse’s Digr. 5. l. 2. Sect. 1. Vind. Grat.”, in Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie: […], London: […] Robert White, for Nevill Simmons […], →OCLC, paragraph 588, page 94:",
"text": "This opinion ſeemeth to me, to leave very little or no place for the Chriſtian Religion. For […] It obliterateth the notion of Gods Holineſs, vvhich to be no Holineſs, but a common or indifferent thing.",
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"ref": "1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of Mind. And First, of Phancy, or Phantastick Mind.”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 2nd book, paragraph 21, page 43:",
"text": "VVhen vve forget Things; either the Impreſſions are obliterated, or the Images diſſolved into their firſt Principles, or Exterminated from the Brain, vvith the Current of the Animal Spirits into the Nerves.",
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"ref": "1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IV, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 450:",
"text": "All tenderness for the feelings of others, all selfrespect, all sense of the becoming, were obliterated from his [George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys's] mind.",
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"ref": "1872, Walt Whitman, “[Collect.] Preface, 1872, to ‘As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,’ (now ‘Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood,’ in Permanent Ed’n.).”, in Specimen Days & Collect, Philadelphia, Pa.: Rees Welsh & Co., […], published 1882–1883, →OCLC, page 279:",
"text": "The Four Years' War is over— […] A new race, a young and lusty generation, already sweeps in with oceanic currents, obliterating the war, and all its scars, its mounded graves, and all its reminiscences of hatred, conflict, death. So let it be obliterated.",
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"ref": "1876, William Black, “England, Farewell!”, in Madcap Violet. […], volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 182–183:",
"text": "That is what distance does for us; the harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated, and memory begins to look kindly on the past.",
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"ref": "1911, E[rnest] A[lfred Thompson] Wallis Budge, “Appendix: Translations from the Pyramid Texts of Pepi I, Mer-en-Rā, and Pepi II”, in Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection […], London: Philip Lee Warner; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 363:",
"text": "The seal of Pepi is in the House of Rurutȧ. The god who obliterateth sin, Ȧṭer-ȧsfet, obliterateth the transgressions which belong to Pepi in the presence of Khenti-merti in Sekhem.",
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{
"ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The Heroes of Soham …”, in Rail, number 948, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43:",
"text": "Soham's station had been completely obliterated (the replacement was to close in 1965 and is only now being reopened).",
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"To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out."
],
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"completely"
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[
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[
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[
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"annihilate"
],
[
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"(transitive)",
"To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out."
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{
"word": "do away with"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "ܟܦܪ"
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"word": "destruir"
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"word": "esmicolar"
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"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "滅"
},
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"roman": "miè",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "灭"
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"word": "衊"
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"roman": "mǐn",
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"word": "泯"
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"roman": "yí",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "夷"
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"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "tilintetgøre"
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"word": "udslette"
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"word": "(archaic)uitwissen"
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"word": "annihiler"
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"text": "Likevviſe the fragrancy of euery greene herbe yeeldeth ſuch a ſauour, as doth not a little obliterate and ouerſvvay the ſauour of the beaſt: […]",
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"text": "When the ſhadows of the evening are ſtretched out, […] when the veil, that is caſt over the face of nature, obliterateth the variety of colours which owe their being to the light, and aboliſheth all the diſtinction of objects thence ariſing, introducing a joyleſs and uncomfortable uniformity, and rendering it impoſſible for any to \"go forth to their labour;\" […] then it is that deep ſleep falleth upon man.",
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"text": "The Senate approuing all that vvas done, decreed that his name ſhould bee obliterated out of all monuments in Rome, and neuer any Antoninus (a name before very gratious) ſhould rule againe their Empire: ſo odious vvas the remembrance of this Image of Ignominy.",
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"text": "[A]s one foule blot or daſh vvith a pen defaceth a vvhole vvriting, ſo one foule and enormous crime daſheth and obliterateth the faireſt copy of a vertuous life.",
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"text": "As vvhen a name lodg'd in the memory, / But yet through time almoſt obliterate, / Confuſely hovers near the phantaſie: / The man that's thus affected bids relate / A catologue of names.",
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"text": "Becauſe our Conſcience is ſprinkled by the blood of Chriſt, vvhich defaceth and obliterateth all thoſe black Items, that othervviſe vvould be continually calling upon us.",
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"text": "Blessed art thou, O Lord, universal King! who pardonest and forgivest our sins, and the sins of thy people Israel, and obliteratest our guilt year after year; […]",
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"text": "At least she could not be comfortable there till long years should have obliterated her keen consciousness of it.",
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"text": "Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. \"I never understood it,\" she observed, lightly scornful. \"What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics.\"",
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"ref": "1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 31, recto:",
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"ref": "1675, Richard Baxter, “[The First Book.] The First Part: […]. Section XVIII. A Confutation of Dr. Twisse’s Digr. 5. l. 2. Sect. 1. Vind. Grat.”, in Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie: […], London: […] Robert White, for Nevill Simmons […], →OCLC, paragraph 588, page 94:",
"text": "This opinion ſeemeth to me, to leave very little or no place for the Chriſtian Religion. For […] It obliterateth the notion of Gods Holineſs, vvhich to be no Holineſs, but a common or indifferent thing.",
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"text": "VVhen vve forget Things; either the Impreſſions are obliterated, or the Images diſſolved into their firſt Principles, or Exterminated from the Brain, vvith the Current of the Animal Spirits into the Nerves.",
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"ref": "1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IV, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 450:",
"text": "All tenderness for the feelings of others, all selfrespect, all sense of the becoming, were obliterated from his [George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys's] mind.",
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"ref": "1872, Walt Whitman, “[Collect.] Preface, 1872, to ‘As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,’ (now ‘Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood,’ in Permanent Ed’n.).”, in Specimen Days & Collect, Philadelphia, Pa.: Rees Welsh & Co., […], published 1882–1883, →OCLC, page 279:",
"text": "The Four Years' War is over— […] A new race, a young and lusty generation, already sweeps in with oceanic currents, obliterating the war, and all its scars, its mounded graves, and all its reminiscences of hatred, conflict, death. So let it be obliterated.",
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"ref": "1876, William Black, “England, Farewell!”, in Madcap Violet. […], volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 182–183:",
"text": "That is what distance does for us; the harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated, and memory begins to look kindly on the past.",
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"text": "The seal of Pepi is in the House of Rurutȧ. The god who obliterateth sin, Ȧṭer-ȧsfet, obliterateth the transgressions which belong to Pepi in the presence of Khenti-merti in Sekhem.",
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"ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The Heroes of Soham …”, in Rail, number 948, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43:",
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"text": "Likevviſe the fragrancy of euery greene herbe yeeldeth ſuch a ſauour, as doth not a little obliterate and ouerſvvay the ſauour of the beaſt: […]",
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"text": "When the ſhadows of the evening are ſtretched out, […] when the veil, that is caſt over the face of nature, obliterateth the variety of colours which owe their being to the light, and aboliſheth all the diſtinction of objects thence ariſing, introducing a joyleſs and uncomfortable uniformity, and rendering it impoſſible for any to \"go forth to their labour;\" […] then it is that deep ſleep falleth upon man.",
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"ref": "1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Antoninus Heliogabalus”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book VI ([The Romans] […]), paragraph 6, page 235, column 1:",
"text": "The Senate approuing all that vvas done, decreed that his name ſhould bee obliterated out of all monuments in Rome, and neuer any Antoninus (a name before very gratious) ſhould rule againe their Empire: ſo odious vvas the remembrance of this Image of Ignominy.",
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"text": "[A]s one foule blot or daſh vvith a pen defaceth a vvhole vvriting, ſo one foule and enormous crime daſheth and obliterateth the faireſt copy of a vertuous life.",
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"ref": "1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΑ [Psychathanasia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Poem of the Immortality of Souls, Especially Mans Soul”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC, book 2, canto 3, stanza 11, page 19:",
"text": "As vvhen a name lodg'd in the memory, / But yet through time almoſt obliterate, / Confuſely hovers near the phantaſie: / The man that's thus affected bids relate / A catologue of names.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1676, [Matthew Hale], “Of the Knowledge of Christ Crucified”, in Contemplations Moral and Divine. […], London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbury […], and John Leigh […], →OCLC, page 247:",
"text": "Becauſe our Conſcience is ſprinkled by the blood of Chriſt, vvhich defaceth and obliterateth all thoſe black Items, that othervviſe vvould be continually calling upon us.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1836, Hyam Isaacs, “Remarks on the Traditions and Ceremonies of the Jews”, in Ceremonies, Customs, Rites, and Traditions of the Jews, […], 2nd edition, London: […] T. and C. Buck, […] [for] S. Holdworth, […], →OCLC, page 58:",
"text": "Blessed art thou, O Lord, universal King! who pardonest and forgivest our sins, and the sins of thy people Israel, and obliteratest our guilt year after year; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1843, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, “Ill Fares the Country Mouse in the Traps of Town”, in The Last of the Barons, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons […], →OCLC, book II (The King’s Court), page 66:",
"text": "The walls had been rudely painted, (for arras then was rare, even among the wealthiest,) but the colours were half obliterated by time and damp.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:",
"text": "At least she could not be comfortable there till long years should have obliterated her keen consciousness of it.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Silverside”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 316:",
"text": "Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. \"I never understood it,\" she observed, lightly scornful. \"What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make (a drawing, text which is printed or written, etc.) indecipherable, either by erasing or obscuring it; to blot out, to efface, to delete."
],
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{
"word": "deface"
},
{
"word": "paint out"
},
{
"english": "of text",
"word": "mark out"
},
{
"english": "of text",
"word": "strike through"
},
{
"word": "delete"
}
],
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"make",
"make#Verb"
],
[
"drawing",
"drawing#Noun"
],
[
"text",
"text#Noun"
],
[
"printed",
"print#Verb"
],
[
"written",
"write#Verb"
],
[
"indecipherable",
"indecipherable"
],
[
"erasing",
"erase#Verb"
],
[
"obscuring",
"obscure#Verb"
],
[
"blot out",
"blot out"
],
[
"efface",
"efface"
],
[
"delete",
"delete#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(also figuratively) To make (a drawing, text which is printed or written, etc.) indecipherable, either by erasing or obscuring it; to blot out, to efface, to delete."
],
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"also",
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English transitive verbs",
"en:Biology",
"en:Pathology",
"en:Surgery"
],
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{
"ref": "1959 September, F. Ronald Edwards, “Vascular Compression of the Trachea and Oesophagus”, in N[orman] R[upert] Barrett, J[ohn] G[uyett] Scadding, editors, Thorax, volume XIV, number 3, London: British Medical Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 187, column 1:",
"text": "In the developing embryo the foregut is surrounded by a group of vascular structures of bilateral distribution connected with the branchial arches. Portions of these arches are obliterated to form the normally described aorta and great vessels. The ultimate persistence of only one main vascular arch, the left, as the aorta, permits the trachea and oesophagus to lie freely to its right side.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1959 December, R. H. Elphinstone, R. G. Spector, “Sarcoma of the Pulmonary Artery”, in N[orman] R[upert] Barrett, J[ohn] G[uyett] Scadding, editors, Thorax, volume XIV, number 4, London: British Medical Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 335, column 1:",
"text": "The pleural sac was obliterated by firm fibrous adhesions over the right upper lobe.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1974 July, Ira W. DuBrow, Sheldon O. Burman, Decio O. Elias, Alois R. Hastreiter, Raymond J. Pietras, “Aortic Arch in the Neck”, in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, volume 68, number 1, [St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby?], →DOI, →ISSN, →PMID, page 27, column 1:",
"text": "Compression of an aneurysm of the left carotid artery should obliterate only the pulses of the distribution of this artery, not those of the femoral arteries. If the mass is an aneurysm of the right common carotid artery, manual compression should obliterate the distribution of this vessel and, because of its location, may also obliterate the vessels of the right arm. However, femoral pulsations should be preserved.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue)."
],
"links": [
[
"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"pathology",
"pathology"
],
[
"surgery",
"surgery"
],
[
"impair",
"impair#Verb"
],
[
"function",
"function#Noun"
],
[
"structure",
"structure#Noun"
],
[
"body",
"body#Noun"
],
[
"cavity",
"cavity"
],
[
"vessel",
"vessel"
],
[
"ablating",
"ablate"
],
[
"occluding",
"occlude"
],
[
"filling it",
"fill#Verb"
],
[
"tissue",
"tissue#Noun"
]
],
"qualifier": "chiefly passive voice",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(biology, pathology, surgery, chiefly passive voice) To impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"medicine",
"natural-sciences",
"pathology",
"sciences",
"surgery"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Philately"
],
"glosses": [
"To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot be reused."
],
"links": [
[
"philately",
"philately"
],
[
"cancel",
"cancel#Verb"
],
[
"postage stamp",
"postage stamp"
],
[
"postmark",
"postmark#Noun"
],
[
"reused",
"reuse#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(philately) To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot be reused."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"philately"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Biology",
"en:Pathology"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "distal pulses obliterate until perfusion is restored",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction."
],
"links": [
[
"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"pathology",
"pathology"
],
[
"perfusion",
"perfusion"
],
[
"pulse",
"pulse#Noun"
],
[
"cease",
"cease"
],
[
"obstruction",
"obstruction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(biology, pathology) Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"medicine",
"natural-sciences",
"pathology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈblɪtəɹeɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/oʊ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-ɾə-]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕafā",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "عَفَا"
},
{
"code": "syc",
"lang": "Aramaic",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"Classical-Syriac"
],
"word": "ܟܦܪ"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vyniščycʹ",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "вынішчыць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vyniščacʹ",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вынішчаць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zniščycʹ",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "знішчыць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zniščacʹ",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "знішчаць"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izličavam",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "изличавам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uništožavam",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "унищожавам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "níštja",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ни́щя"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "anihilar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "aniquilar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "destrossar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "destruir"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "esmicolar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "滅"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miè",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "灭"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "衊"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miè",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "蔑"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mǐn",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "泯"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yí",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "夷"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "tilintetgøre"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "udslette"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "ecraseren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "(archaic)uitwissen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "hävittää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "tuhota"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "annihiler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "effacer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "écraser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "volatiliser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "anéantir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "pulvériser"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "auslöschen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "verwischen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "exafanízo",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "εξαφανίζω"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "makha",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "מָחָה"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hikh-khid",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "הִכְחִיד"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "eltöröl"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "kiirt"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "afmá"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "obliterare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "annullare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "spazzare"
},
{
"alt": "げきはする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gekiha suru",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "撃破する"
},
{
"alt": "めつ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "metsu",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "滅"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "malsalhada",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "말살하다"
},
{
"alt": "滅",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "myeol",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "멸"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "myeolmanghada",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "멸망하다"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "oblitterō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "annihilō"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "sotre",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "сотре"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "urupatu"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "pusṇe",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "पुसणे"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "utslette"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "utrydde"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "utslette"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "utsletta"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wyniszczać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wyniszczyć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zabijać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zabić"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wymazywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wymazać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "obliterar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "aniquilar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uničtožátʹ",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уничтожа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uničtóžitʹ",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уничто́жить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "obliterar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "aniquilar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "arrasar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "borrar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "destruir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "remover"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "utplåna"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "aḻi",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "அழி"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "láang",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "ล้าง"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "znýščuvaty",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "зни́щувати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "znýščyty",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "зни́щити"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "mạt sát"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "dileu"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "difodi"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it",
"word": "obliterar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it",
"word": "täyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to destroy completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "hävittää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to destroy completely, leaving no trace",
"word": "tuhota"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction",
"word": "täyttyä"
}
],
"word": "obliterate"
}
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"English heteronyms",
"English learned borrowings from Latin",
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"English obsolete terms",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms suffixed with -ate (adjective)",
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"Pages with 4 entries",
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"tags": [
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"word": "obliterateness"
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"expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin obliterātus",
"name": "lbor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin obliterātus (see more at Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix, of participial origin)).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more obliterate",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most obliterate",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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"expansion": "(obsolete)",
"name": "term-label"
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],
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"pos": "adj",
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"categories": [
"English poetic terms",
"English terms with quotations"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1628 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “Sermon V. Preached at St. Paul’s on Christmas-Day, 1627.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 90:",
"text": "[G]o to the herald's office, […] and thou shalt find in that office as many records of attainted families, and escheated families, and impoverished and forgotten, and obliterate families, as of families newly erected and presently celebrated.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, page 32:",
"text": "It may maintain a bright conjecture, againſt a ruſty Truth: a legible poſſeſſion, againſt an obliterate Claime: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1659, Henry More, chapter IV, in The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book III, paragraph 9, page 374:",
"text": "And they being in a capacity to forget by reaſon of deſuetude, it vvill be a nevv pleaſure to them to recall to minde their almoſt obliterate ſpeculations.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Completely destroyed or erased; effaced, obliterated."
],
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[
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"completely"
],
[
"destroyed",
"destroyed#Adjective"
],
[
"erased",
"erased#Adjective"
],
[
"efface",
"efface"
],
[
"obliterated",
"obliterated#Adjective"
]
],
"qualifier": "except poetic",
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"(except poetic) Completely destroyed or erased; effaced, obliterated."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with rare senses",
"en:Entomology"
],
"glosses": [
"Of markings on an insect: difficult to distinguish from the background; faint, indistinct."
],
"links": [
[
"entomology",
"entomology"
],
[
"markings",
"marking#Noun"
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[
"insect",
"insect"
],
[
"difficult",
"difficult"
],
[
"distinguish",
"distinguish"
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[
"background",
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],
[
"faint",
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],
[
"indistinct",
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],
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"(entomology, rare) Of markings on an insect: difficult to distinguish from the background; faint, indistinct."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"entomology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈblɪtəɹət/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈblɪtəɹət/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/oʊ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-ɾə-]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "obliterate"
}
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