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obliterate
Overview of verb obliterate
The verb obliterate has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (1) kill, obliterate, wipe out -- (mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech")
2. (1) obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide -- (make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat")
3. (1) obliterate, efface -- (remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps")
4. obliterate -- (do away with completely, without leaving a trace)
Overview of adj obliterate
The adj obliterate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. blotted out, obliterate, obliterated -- (reduced to nothingness)
Antonyms of verb obliterate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb obliterate
4 senses of obliterate
Sense 1
kill, obliterate, wipe out
=> take away, take out
=> remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sense 2
obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 3
obliterate, efface
=> blur, dim, slur
=> weaken
=> decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
=> change magnitude
=> change
Sense 4
obliterate
=> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
=> destroy, destruct
=> unmake, undo
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb obliterate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb obliterate
4 senses of obliterate
Sense 1
kill, obliterate, wipe out
=> take away, take out
Sense 2
obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 3
obliterate, efface
=> blur, dim, slur
Sense 4
obliterate
=> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
'Cause To' of verb obliterate
Derived Forms of verb obliterate
4 senses of obliterate
Sense 1
kill, obliterate, wipe out
RELATED TO>(adj) obliterable#1
=> obliterable, removable
RELATED TO>(noun) obliteration#2
=> eradication, obliteration
Sense 2
obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
RELATED TO>(adj) obliterable#1
=> obliterable, removable
Sense 3
obliterate, efface
RELATED TO>(noun) obliteration#2
=> eradication, obliteration
RELATED TO>(noun) obliteration#1
=> annihilation, obliteration
Sense 4
obliterate
RELATED TO>(adj) obliterable#1
=> obliterable, removable
RELATED TO>(noun) obliteration#2
=> eradication, obliteration
RELATED TO>(noun) obliteration#1
=> annihilation, obliteration
RELATED TO>(noun) obliterator#1
=> obliterator
Domain of verb obliterate
Domain Terms of verb obliterate
Familiarity of verb obliterate
obliterate used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Sample Sentences of verb obliterate
4 senses of obliterate
Sense 1
kill, obliterate, wipe out
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
obliterate, efface
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
obliterate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb obliterate
4 senses of obliterate
Sense 1
kill, obliterate, wipe out
> take away, take out
=> bus
=> kill, obliterate, wipe out
=> cross off, cross out, strike out, strike off, mark
=> erase, delete
=> cart off, cart away, haul off, haul away
Sense 2
obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> even, even out
=> equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate
=> stiffen
=> loosen, loose
=> tighten, fasten
=> transitivize, transitivise
=> detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise
=> thicken, inspissate
=> full
=> diversify
=> deaden
=> check, retard, delay
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
=> solvate
=> dissolve
=> validate
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
=> empty
=> fill, fill up, make full
=> saturate
=> clot, coagulate
=> louden
=> normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
=> morph
=> neutralize, neutralise
=> commercialize, commercialise, market
=> purify, purge, sanctify
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> automatize, automatise, automate
=> automatize, automatise
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
=> polarize, polarise
=> glorify
=> contaminate
=> devalue
=> insulate
=> calcify
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> emulsify
=> demulsify
=> decarboxylate
=> nazify
=> fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
=> clarify
=> embrittle
=> mark
=> barb
=> nick
=> disable, disenable, incapacitate
=> enable
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
=> tender, tenderize, tenderise
=> charge
=> sweeten
=> iodinate
=> ionate
=> archaize, archaise
=> inform
=> officialize, officialise
=> occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise
=> orientalize, orientalise
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> achromatize, achromatise
=> parallel, collimate
=> camp
=> classicize, classicise
=> conventionalize, conventionalise
=> decimalize, decimalise
=> dizzy
=> poison, envenom
=> exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
=> glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise
=> introvert
=> laicize, laicise
=> politicize, politicise
=> radicalize
=> proof
=> romanticize, romanticise
=> rusticate
=> sauce
=> shallow, shoal
=> tense
=> steepen
=> scramble
=> unscramble
=> unsex
=> vitrify
=> pall
=> saponify
=> extend, expand
=> suspend, set aside
=> muddy
=> transform
=> lift, raise, elevate
=> harshen
=> dinge
=> demonize, demonise
=> devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise
=> etherealize, etherialise
=> immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise
=> animize, animise, animate
=> clear
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> rarefy, sublimate, subtilize
=> volatilize, volatilise
=> uniformize, uniformise
=> symmetrize, symmetrise
=> immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
=> denature
=> denature
=> denature
=> sanitize, sanitise
=> verbify
=> shift
=> sputter
=> draw
=> make
=> dope
=> prostrate
=> excite
=> excite, energize, energise
=> shake
=> outmode
=> spice, spice up
=> shorten
=> think
=> make
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> reflate
=> digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
=> masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
=> masculinize
=> disharmonize, dissonate
=> sexualize, sexualise
=> schematize, schematise
=> patent
=> constitutionalize, constitutionalise
=> rationalize, rationalise
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> rarefy
=> paganize, paganise
=> incandesce
=> deaminate, deaminize
=> angulate
=> circularize
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> depolarize, depolarise
=> intensify
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> legitimate
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> opacify
=> opsonize
=> militarize, militarise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> recommend
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> solemnize, solemnise
=> territorialize, territorialise
=> transaminate
=> transfigure, glorify, spiritualize
=> unsanctify
=> vesiculate
=> visualize, visualise
=> variegate
=> ventilate
=> vivify
=> vulgarise, vulgarize
=> supple
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> smut
=> still
=> weaponize
=> eroticize, sex up
=> piggyback
=> confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
=> confuse
=> tone down, moderate, tame
=> obfuscate
=> synchronize, synchronise
=> mince, soften, moderate
=> militarize, militarise
=> break down, crush
=> fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
=> touch, disturb
=> dull
=> dull, blunt
=> sharpen
=> coarsen
=> loosen
=> untie, undo, loosen
=> barb
=> string
=> straighten, straighten out
=> bring
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
=> charge
=> put
=> clean, make clean
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> lower, depress
=> deform
=> break, break up
=> alter
=> decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
=> humanize, humanise
=> humble
=> estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
=> right
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> deodorize, deodorise, deodourise
=> develop
=> blur
=> blind
=> change intensity
=> change taste
=> capture
=> lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
=> restore, reinstate, reestablish
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> right, compensate, redress, correct
=> democratize, democratise
=> neutralize
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
=> relax, loosen
=> unite, unify
=> flocculate
=> turn
=> make possible
=> cohere
Sense 3
obliterate, efface
> blur, dim, slur
=> obliterate, efface
Sense 4
obliterate
> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
=> cancel out, wipe out
=> decouple
=> decouple
=> obliterate
=> knock out
=> drown
=> cut out
=> cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise
=> snuff out, extinguish
=> exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb obliterate
Sense 2
obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 3
obliterate, efface
=> blur, dim, slur
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Sense 1
kill, obliterate, wipe out
=> take away, take out
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Sense 4
obliterate
=> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
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Grep of verb obliterate
obliterate
Antonyms of adj obliterate
1 sense of obliterate
Sense 1
blotted out, obliterate, obliterated
INDIRECT (VIA destroyed) -> preserved
Similarity of adj obliterate
1 sense of obliterate
Sense 1
blotted out, obliterate, obliterated
=> destroyed (vs. preserved)
Pertainyms of adj obliterate
Attributes of adj obliterate
Domain of adj obliterate
Domain Terms of adj obliterate
Familiarity of adj obliterate
obliterate used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj obliterate
obliterate
obliterated
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