obliterate
/əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪt/ verbe C2En français : annihiler, effacer, écraser, volatiliser
- To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
- To hide (something) by covering it; to conceal, to obscure. · The rainclouds obliterated the sun as they swept across the sky.
- 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.
- 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).
- To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot be reused.
- To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace.
- 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
Pluriel obliterate · He/she/it obliterates · Prétérit obliterated · Participe passé obliterated · Forme en -ing obliterating
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- obliterate
- He/she/it
- obliterates
- Prétérit
- obliterated
- Participe passé
- obliterated
- Forme en -ing
- obliterating
Dans la bibliothèque
It was easy to tell that they had been before the others, because in places their marks had been entirely obliterated by the others coming upon the top of them.
The ensuing commercial triumph was nothing short of meteoric, obliterating the entrenched orthodoxies of the early twentieth-century publishing industry.
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