obliterate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.

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

2. fiil To hide (something) by covering it; to conceal, to obscure.

   “The rainclouds obliterated the sun as they swept across the sky.”

3. fiil To make (a drawing, text which is printed or written, etc.) indecipherable, either by erasing or obscuring it; to blot out, to efface, to delete.

   “The Senate approuing all that vvas done, decreed that his name ſhould bee obliterated out of all monuments in Rome, and neuer any Antoninus (a name before very gratious) ſhould rule againe their Empire: ſo odious vvas the remembrance of this Image of Ignominy.”

4. fiil To impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue).

   “The pleural sac was obliterated by firm fibrous adhesions over the right upper lobe.”

5. fiil To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot be reused.
6. fiil To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace.
7. fiil Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction.

   “distal pulses obliterate until perfusion is restored”

8. sıfat Completely destroyed or erased; effaced, obliterated.

   “[G]o to the herald's office, […] and thou shalt find in that office as many records of attainted families, and escheated families, and impoverished and forgotten, and obliterate families, as of families newly erected and presently celebrated.”

9. sıfat Of markings on an insect: difficult to distinguish from the background; faint, indistinct.