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obliterate

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"Wipe out"

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10 lettersPronunciation /əˈblɪtəɹeɪt/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted abeeilorttStarts with OEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (OBLITERATE).

Definitions

  1. remove completely from recognition or memory

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin obliterātus (see more at Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix, of participial origin)).

Used in a sentence

  • [H]e [Pope Gregory I] deſigned to obliterate and extinguiſh the memorie of Heathen antiquitie and Authors.
  • 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.
  • 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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