obliterate

英 [ə'blɪtəreɪt] 美 [ə'blɪtəreɪt]

• v. 涂去；擦去；删除；盖销（邮票等）

英英释义

Adjective:

1. reduced to nothingness

Verb:

1. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase;

   "kill these lines in the President's speech"
   

2. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing;

   "a hidden message"
   "a veiled threat"
   

3. remove completely from recognition or memory;

   "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
   

4. do away with completely, without leaving a trace

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. Can you obliterate the letters on the edge in this paper with correction fluid?
   你能用涂改液涂去这一页边上的这些字母吗？
2. Don't obliterate a file simply because you discovered it to be a bad idea.
   不要因为你发现它不好就删除一个文件。

经典引文

• The colours were half obliterated by time and damp.

  出自： Lytton

• Snow..had obliterated everything..and I could not find the way.

  出自： H. E. Bates

• Driving rain obliterated the Lizard, a couple of miles to starboard.

  出自： C. Francis

近反义词

【近义词】

• destroy 破坏
• demolish 拆毁
• wipe out 消灭
• eliminate 除去
• eradicate 根除
• annihilate 消灭
• abolish 废除
• erase 抹去
• delete 删除
• wipe 擦
• blot 污点
• efface 擦掉
• cancel 取消
• out 出
• blot out 完全清除(思想、记忆等)...
• veil 面纱
• kill 杀死
• obliterated 废除的
• obscure 难解的
• hide 藏