obliterate

英 [əˈblɪtəreɪt]

美 [əˈblɪtəreɪt]

v.  毁掉; 覆盖; 清除

过去分词：obliterated　现在分词：obliterating　第三人称单数：obliterates　过去式：obliterated　

TOEFLGRETEM8法律

Collins.1 / BNC.11165 / COCA.10389

牛津词典

verb

• 毁掉；覆盖；清除
  to remove all signs of sth, either by destroying or covering it completely
  1. The building was completely obliterated by the bomb.
     炸弹把那座建筑物彻底摧毁了。
  2. The snow had obliterated their footprints.
     白雪覆盖了他们的足迹。
  3. Everything that happened that night was obliterated from his memory.
     那天夜里发生的一切都从他的记忆中消失了。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 消灭;毁掉;清除
  If somethingobliteratesan object or place, it destroys it completely.
  1. Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over...
     他们拥有的弹头足以将世界毁灭好几次。
  2. Whole villages were obliterated by fire.
     整座整座的村庄都被大火所吞噬。
• VERB 抹除，忘却（回忆等）
  If youobliteratesomething such as a memory, emotion, or thought, you remove it completely from your mind.
  1. There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him.
     时间足以抹去他对过去经历的记忆。

英英释义

verb

• remove completely from recognition or memory
  1. efface the memory of the time in the camps
  Synonym:efface
• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
  1. a hidden message
  2. a veiled threat
  Synonym:obscureblot outveilhide
• do away with completely, without leaving a trace
• mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
  1. kill these lines in the President's speech
  Synonym:killwipe out

adj

• reduced to nothingness
  Synonym:blotted outobliterated

双语例句

• However, obliterate should never be used to delete actual work.
  当然，删除应该决不用于删除真正的工作。
• Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over
  他们拥有的弹头足以将世界毁灭好几次。
• I obliterate the word with chalk.
  我用粉笔把这个单词涂去了。
• I believe that good is stronger than evil. I have found that if applied with complete faith, it can obliterate evil.
  我相信善可以压倒恶，并发现如果我们完全相信善的力量，便能以善除恶。
• I watched bombs obliterate the villages.
  我看着炸弹将一座座村庄夷为平地。
• Facing an audience that largely believes that online retail will obliterate physical stores, Johnson took a contrarian view.
  面对大部分都相信互联网零售业将摧毁实体店的听众，约翰逊发表了截然相反的看法。
• Matter and antimatter are like the good and evil twins of nature; they are endowed with equal and opposite characteristics like charge and spin, so if they meet they obliterate each other, releasing a flash of energy upon contact.
  物质和反物质就像自然界善良与邪恶的双胞胎；它们被赋予相同和相反的特性类似电荷及旋转，因此如果它们相遇，它们接触之后，释放出能量闪光。
• Whole villages were obliterated by fire.
  整座整座的村庄都被大火所吞噬。
• In a few years she had managed to obliterate all memories of the incident.
  在几年的时间里，她便设法把这件事全部忘记了。
• Rising water will soon obliterate one of the strangest chapters in Chinese history.
  水位上升后很快就将抹去中国历史上最奇异的其中一部分。