obliterate
verb [often passive]Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they obliterate | |
he / she / it obliterates | |
past simple obliterated | |
past participle obliterated | |
-ing form obliterating |
- obliterate something
to remove all signs of something, either by destroying or covering it completely 毁掉;覆盖;清除 The building was completely obliterated by the bomb. 炸弹把那座建筑物彻底摧毁了。 The snow had obliterated their footprints. 白雪覆盖了他们的足迹。 Everything that happened that night was obliterated from his memory. 那天夜里发生的一切都从他的记忆中消失了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- totally
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin obliterat- ‘struck out, erased’, from the verb obliterare, based on littera ‘letter, something written’.