Obliterate
[ə'blɪtəreɪt] or [ə'blɪtə'ret]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) remove completely from recognition or memory; 'efface the memory of the time in the camps'.
(verb.) do away with completely, without leaving a trace.
格斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
(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.
(a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
狄伦編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Efface, erase, expunge, cancel, rub out, rub off, blot out, scratch out, wipe out, strike out.
巴雷特校對
同義詞及反義詞：
[See EFFACE]
卡尔文校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to blot out so as not to be readable: to wear out: to destroy: to reduce to a very low state.—n. Obliterā′tion act of obliterating: a blotting or wearing out: extinction.—adj. Oblit′erātive.
艾米編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- She fancied that Raymond would already be free, and that her tender attentions would come to entirely obliterate even the memory of his mischance. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- As if that honour would obliterate any remembrance! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You perceive several places where it has passed across and obliterated the more shallow mark of the front one. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Now this concentration must represent a profound impetus in the business world--an impetus which certainly cannot be obliterated, even if anyone were foolish enough to wish it. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The track of the doomed men through the ranks of their fellow mortals was obliterated. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He waited at the door of the carriage patiently, self-obliterated. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Here, once again, was the mark of the bicycle, though nearly obliterated by the hoofs of cows. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- And the man curiously obliterated himself, as if he could make himself invisible, as a rat can. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- That would have obliterated every advantage by which they lived. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Shadows, dark and heavy, struck again and again across the place where the heart of the moon had been, obliterating it altogether. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The routineer with his taboo does not see this, so he attempts the impossible task of obliterating the impulse. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I say, my friends, pursues Mr. Chadband, utterly rejecting and obliterating Mr. Snagsby's suggestion, why can we not fly? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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