Synonyms of the word obliterate


OBLITERATEALTER - BLUR - CHANGE - DESTROYED - DIM - EFFACE - ELIMINATE - HIDE - KILL - MODIFY - OBLITERATED - OBSCURE - SLUR - VEIL

obliterate

  • v. To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

blur

  • v. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
  • v. To smear, stain or smudge.
  • v. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
  • v. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
  • v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
  • n. A smear, smudge or blot.
  • n. Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
  • n. (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
  • adj. (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

destroyed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of destroy.
  • adj. (Ireland, informal) (particularly of a child) soiled, muddied, especially as a result of a fall or spill.

dim

  • adj. Not bright or colorful.
  • adj. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
  • adj. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
  • adj. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
  • adv. Dimly, indistinctly.
  • n. (archaic) Dimness.
  • v. (transitive) To make something less bright.
  • v. (intransitive) To become darker.
  • v. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken;…
  • v. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes;…

efface

  • v. (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
  • v. (reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
  • v. (medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.

eliminate

  • v. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
  • v. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
  • v. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
  • v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
  • v. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

hide

  • v. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
  • v. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
  • n. (countable) The skin of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete or derogatory) The human skin.
  • n. (uncountable, informal, usually US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
  • n. (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals…
  • v. To beat with a whip made from hide.
  • n. (historical) An English unit of land and tax assessment intended to support one household and notionally…

kill

  • v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  • v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  • v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
  • v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
  • v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
  • v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  • v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
  • v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  • n. The act of killing.
  • n. Specifically, the death blow.
  • n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
  • n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  • n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
  • n. A kiln.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

obliterated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of obliterate.
  • adj. (slang) Very drunk, intoxicated, wasted.

obscure

  • adj. Dark, faint or indistinct.
  • adj. Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
  • adj. difficult to understand.
  • adj. not well-known.
  • v. (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible,…
  • v. (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.

slur

  • n. An insult or slight.
  • n. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
  • n. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused…
  • n. (obsolete) A trick or deception.
  • n. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
  • v. To insult or slight.
  • v. To run together; to articulate poorly.
  • v. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
  • v. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
  • v. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
  • v. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
  • v. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

veil

  • n. Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze,…
  • n. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  • n. The calyptra of mosses.
  • n. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
  • n. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head).
  • n. (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa).
  • n. (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
  • v. To put on, or decorate with, a veil.
  • v. To conceal as with a veil.

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