obliterate
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His biggest laugh is obtained during his harem courtship of Actress Edith Meiser, with the line: And does the incense Obliterate the sin sense?
From Time Magazine Archive
Obliterate, a game in which a submarine and a battleship match tactics at sea, had already been available for many months.
From Time Magazine Archive
Go therefore thou, Lead on, and if a word have fallen amiss,430 We will hereafter mend it, and may heaven Obliterate in thine heart its whole effect!
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
Obliterate race hatred, party prejudice, and help us to achieve nobler ends, greater results, and become more satisfactory citizens to our brother in white.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore
Obliterate, ob-lit′ėr-āt, v.t. to blot out, so as not to be readable: to wear out: to destroy: to reduce to a very low state.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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