obliterate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
kill these lines in the President's speech
Types & categories
- take away hypernym
Related & opposite
- eradication derivation
- wipeout derivation
- obliterable derivation
Sense 2 adjective
reduced to nothingness
Related & opposite
- destroyed similar to
Sense 3 verb
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
a hidden message
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- concealing derivation
- obliterable derivation
- efface verb group
Sense 4 verb
remove completely from recognition or memory
efface the memory of the time in the camps
Types & categories
- slur hypernym
Related & opposite
- annihilation derivation
- eradication derivation
- blot out verb group
Sense 5 verb
do away with completely, without leaving a trace
Types & categories
- eliminate hypernym
Related & opposite
- annihilation derivation
- eradication derivation
- obliterator derivation
- obliterable derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | eradication |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | wipeout |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | obliterable |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | take away |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | destroyed |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | concealing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | obliterable |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | efface |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | mystify |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | annihilation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | eradication |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | blot out |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | slur |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | annihilation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | eradication |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | obliterator |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | obliterable |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | eliminate |