OBLITERATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obliterated mean? 

• OBLITERATED (adjective)
  The adjective OBLITERATED has 1 sense:

1. reduced to nothingness

  Familiarity information: OBLITERATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBLITERATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduced to nothingness

Synonyms:

blotted out; obliterate; obliterated

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

You perceive several places where it has passed across and obliterated the more shallow mark of the front one.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There is much to be done, and other places to be made sanctify, so that that nest of vipers be obliterated.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Amid the crowded millions of London the three persons we sought were as completely obliterated as if they had never lived.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And through another winter they wandered on the obliterated trails of men who had gone before.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A congenital abnormality that results from the failure of the lumen of urachus to be obliterated.

(Patent Urachus, NCI Thesaurus)

And I hope, also, he continued, sitting down in the rocking-chair, that the cares of medical practice have not entirely obliterated the interest which you used to take in our little deductive problems.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A crumpled, disintegrated newspaper revealed itself as the Chicago Democrat, though the date had been obliterated.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A shallow groove between the dentate gyrus and the parahippocampal gyrus; the remains of a fissure extending deep into the hippocampus between Ammon's horn and the dentate gyrus which becomes obliterated during foetal development.

(Hippocampal Fissure, NCI Thesaurus)

We are progressing. My friend has now a whole colony of sparrows, and his flies and spiders are almost obliterated.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)