obliteration

Roget-categorie 552

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.1. Natural means

#552. [Suppression of sign.] Obliteration

zelfstandig naamwoord

obliteration — erasure, rasure^† — cancel, cancellation — circumduction^† — deletion, blot — tabula rasa [Lat.] — effacement, extinction.

werkwoord

efface, obliterate, erase, raze^†, rase^†, expunge, cancel — blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out — wipe off, rub off — wipe away — deface, render illegible — draw the pen through, apply the sponge.
be effaced &c. — leave no trace etc. 550 — leave not a rack behind"

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

obliterated etc. v. — out of print — printless^† — leaving no trace — intestate — unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.

tussenwerpsel

dele — out with it!,

uitdrukking

delenda est Carthago [Lat.] [Cato].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

Vetgedrukte nummers geven verwante Roget-categorieën aan. Een obelisk-symbool (†) volgt op archaïsche woorden die niet langer courant zijn.

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