357. Obliterate - IELTS Vocabulary - Vivid Verbs - Obliterate / Obliteration

Obliterate : (흔적을)없애다, 지우다, 파괴하다, (보이지 않도록)덮어버리다

Obliteration : 소멸, 망각, 삭제, 말소

to obliterate, means to destroy, to break
to wipe out, to leave no trace of something
to remove something completely
to remve all signs of something either you destroy it or you cover it so that it can't be seen

to obliterate, to make something so that you cna't see it
to remove from existence
to make undecipherable
to make something imperceptible
something that obscures it or wears it away

to destroy completely

to blot out
to make indecipherable 
to efface
to veil
to hide
to obscure
to do away with
to eliminate
to extinguish
to get rid of

to wreck

to put an end to

 

there were insults spray painted on the wall and these were obliterated by black paint
they tried to obliterate these rude words by painting over them in white 
the view from the room pointed towards the beach but the view of the beach was obliterated by a tall tower block
maybe sombody could drink lots of alcohol to obliterate the memory of something
you get drunk to obliterate paintful memories
a nuclear war could obliterate humans completely and could wipe them out
I think amnesia is when things are obliterated from your mind, they are eradicated
Beautiful paint had been obliterated by our time
a dimness like a fog envelops consciousness, as a mist obliterates a crag
you can obliterate a memory or a though, you just remove it from your mind
time doesn't completely obliterate painful memories but certainlly it makes them less poignant perhaps
the sign had been obliterated by the smoke from the city
the obliteration of certain words
ethnic cleansing very often tries to obliterate all of an ethnic group within a country
the village was obliterated by enormous fire
in the beach , the tide came in and obliterated my footprints on the sand
much of the east end of london was obliterated by bombing during the second world

 

Formallity : 5.5

 

 

 

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