obliterate

1. 1.

   reduced to nothingness

   Synonymsblotted outobliterated

   Similardestroyed

Other forms of obliterate

past tense

obliterated·

present participle

obliterating·

third person

obliterates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about obliterate

What does obliterate mean?

obliterate means "mark for deletion, rub off, or erase". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obliterate?

obliterate has 4 syllables: o-blit-e-rate. The stress falls on "blit". In IPA it is /əˈblɪtɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for obliterate?

Close synonyms include kill, wipe out, obscure, blot out, veil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is obliterate a common word?

obliterate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with obliterate?

95 words rhyme with obliterate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.