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obliterated

/uh-blit-uh-reyt/US // əˈblɪt əˌreɪt //UK // (əˈblɪtəˌreɪt) //

湮没无闻,湮灭的,湮没了,湮没

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ob·lit·er·at·ed, ob·lit·er·at·ing.

    • : to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
    • : to blot out or render undecipherable; efface.

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Examples

  • The threat in 2001 wasn’t coming from our fellow countrymen, and we weren’t a year into a pandemic that has obliterated all sense of normalcy.

  • If I ran just three miles in the evening, my thighs, come sunrise, would feel as obliterated as they did after my first marathon.

  • Such a move would have been considered unthinkable a year ago, but the pandemic has obliterated industry norms.

  • I punch over the first — with a victorious howl that I’m now certain obliterated the soundscape — and into a swooping downhill beneath chestnut-hued chimneys and ramparts.

  • South Carolina’s Senate contest is drawing gobs of attention and record-obliterating cash, but this bellwether House race down along the coast is worth watching too.

  • By Dan P. Lee, New York Magazine She was 22 when her memory was obliterated.

  • Even in the 1930s at the genesis of his long relationship with Vogue, the sheer drama of his work obliterated the competition.

  • Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica.

  • Lava and ash fell for days; the sun was obliterated for three months.

  • The fiasco over Proposition 8, she notes, should have been a case for the Avengers, but they were now “obliterated.”

  • This first great trouble of his life was only partly obliterated by a still greater grief—the death of his mother.

  • But the rivers, by cutting down and tilling up, have long since obliterated these water areas.

  • It cannot now, however, be identified, having been obliterated or concealed by the changes of the last two centuries.

  • What I have suffered I cannot describe; but I am now with you again, and your kindness has obliterated it all from my memory.

  • For a moment, he lost control of himself—they were close together, and the dark had obliterated the room.