obliterate
Speech parts
1. obliterate - Adjective
2. obliterate - Verb
3. obliterate - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
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a hidden message
a veiled threat
efface the memory of the time in the camps
kill these lines in the President's speech
Early on, Chopt was a trendsetter, translating the fine-dining shtick of tableside knife work into the more everyday sight of hourly workers on the line using mezzalunas to obliterate white-collar professionals’ $13 salads into shreds.
Going to work is like entering a warzone for Sinnan, who dons a multi-layered bodysuit to obliterate any chance of taking a hit from the virus.