Crossword-Solution: OBLITERATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Obliterate | v. t. | To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing. |
| Obliterate | v. t. | To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. |
| Obliterate | a. | Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects. |
We have 125 clues for the answer “OBLITERATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Blow to pieces | 1 answer |
| Remove all traces | 1 answer |
| Remove from the face of the earth | 1 answer |
| Render undecipherable | 1 answer |
| do away with completely, without leaving a trace | 1 answer |
| efface the memory of the time in the camps | 1 answer |
| Eliminate completely | 2 answers |
| Wipe out completely | 3 answers |
| sweep away | 3 answers |
| Remove all traces of | 3 answers |
| make illegible | 6 answers |
| IMMORTALISE (ant.) | 6 answers |
| Scratch out? | 7 answers |
| ETERNALISE (ant.) | 8 answers |
| Completely destroy | 9 answers |
| assassinate | 14 answers |
| Raze | 15 answers |
| Slay | 16 answers |
| Dele | 16 answers |
| Expurgate | 18 answers |
| Expunge | 20 answers |
| bump off | 20 answers |
| Rub out | 21 answers |
| do in | 22 answers |
| Bury | 24 answers |
| Decimate | 25 answers |
| Deface | 25 answers |
| Liquidate | 29 answers |
| Erase | 31 answers |
| Debar | 31 answers |
| Preclude | 33 answers |
| Daub | 33 answers |
| Wipe out | 34 answers |
| make short work of | 34 answers |
| Forbid | 34 answers |
| mottle | 35 answers |
| smutch | 35 answers |
| rescind | 36 answers |
| Delete | 36 answers |
| Pollute | 36 answers |
| proscribe | 36 answers |
| spatter | 36 answers |
| Contaminate | 37 answers |
| Censor | 37 answers |
| Smooch | 37 answers |
| Conceal | 37 answers |
| Smudge | 38 answers |
| Befoul | 39 answers |
| smirch | 39 answers |
| Knock off | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OBLITERATE (5)
But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.
All during the interview Carthoris watched, catlike, for some indication that Vas Kor recognized in the battered panthan the erstwhile gorgeous Prince of Helium; but the sleepless nights, the long days of marching and fighting, the wounds and the dried blood had evidently sufficed to obliterate the last remnant of his likeness to his former self; and then Vas Kor had seen him but twice in all his life.
The balance of the loose earth was thrown far and wide, and a mass of dead undergrowth spread in as natural a manner as possible over the new-made grave to obliterate all signs of the ground having been disturbed.
The man’s face was set in hard, stern lines and the marks of sorrow were writ deep about his mouth and eyes—so deep that the set expression of rage upon his features could not obliterate them.
Then, I said, we shall have to obliterate many obnoxious passages, beginning with the verses, I would rather he a serf on the land of a poor and portionless man than rule over all the dead who have come to nought.
Quotes with OBLITERATE (3)
There are a million things in this world that can end you, that can in one second obliterate the life you work so hard to keep alive. Our lives are structured around not dying. Eating, sleeping, looking both ways before you cross the street. It's all, all of it, to keep us safe from the thing that we know is going to get us anyway. It doesn't even make sense, if you think about it. It's the world's biggest joke. Our entire lives are set up around not dying, knowing all the wh…
Poetry, if it is not to be a lifeless repetition of forms, must be constantly exploring "the frontiers of the spirit." But these frontiers are not like the surveys of geographical explorers, conquered once for all and settled. The frontiers of the spirit are more like the jungle which, unless continuously kept under control, is always ready to encroach and eventually obliterate the cultivated area.
In dreams the images in the mind, in the subconscious, merge with and obliterate the perceptions from the astral senses, in a similar way that in daily life the subconscious causes the external world to be perceived with the colorations of thoughts, feelings, images, and emotions; in other words, we daydream or get lost in thoughts.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Onion, Universal, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1973–2020).