Obliterated

/əˈblɪtəɹeɪtɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Destroyed; (loosely) broken beyond repair..

Definitions by Sense

1. Destroyed; (loosely) broken beyond repair.
2. (figurative) Forgotten.
3. (slang) Very drunk or intoxicated; wasted.
4. simple past and past participle of obliterate

Example Sentences

[…] Huck’s confidence in the human race was wellnigh obliterated.

[A]s however the sutures between this epimeron and the adjoining pieces are very obliterated, it easily escapes observation even when really exposed.

Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

Bearing in mind that the veins have more compressible walls than the arteries, it is intelligible how they are more obliterated than the former when an organ becomes dislocated.

Had he succeeded in awakening in 1966, he would no doubt have been fascinated to find the site of his obliterated house the subject of lively interest and debate as archaeologists and architects attempted a hypothetical reconstruction.

On the ground in Berlin, they would search for the axle of an obliterated car and hope that it bore a serial number; they would probe the crater at the Brandenburg's foot, shifting stones made ancient by blood and grief.

A vindictive little kitten who is still angry about an obliterated car, more like.

This thought gave life to her diction, her soul flowed into it, and she soon found the task of recollecting almost obliterated impressions very interesting.

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• more obliterated
• most obliterated

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