Obliterate vs Extinct - What's the difference?
obliterate | extinct |
To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.
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*:The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated .
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
* Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
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No longer in existence; having died out.
(vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.
As a verb obliterate
is to remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.As an adjective extinct is
(dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).obliterate
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Verb
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* See alsoextinct
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
writes in there'' as two words but ''therein'' as one word might be taken as suggest-
ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as ''thereby .
- The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .
