- obliteration/obliterated
- Mostly used to referring to serial numbers which are no longer readable. The blotting out or smearing over of writing to make the original invisible or undecipherable.
Forensic science glossary. John C. Brenner . 2012.
obliteration/obliterated
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Obliteration — Ob*lit er*a tion, n. [L. obliteratio: cf. F. oblit[ e]ration.] The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. Sir. M. Hale. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Obliteration by incorporation — Sociology … Wikipedia
Obliteration — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Suppression of sign. < N PARAG:Obliteration >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 obliteration obliteration Sgm: N 1 erasure erasure rasure Sgm: N 1 cancel cancel cancellation Sgm: N 1 circumduction circumduction Sgm: N … English dictionary for students
obliteration — obliterative /euh blit euh ray tiv, euhr euh tiv/, adj. /euh blit euh ray sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated. 2. Pathol., Surg. the removal of a part as a result of disease or surgery. [1650 60; < L… … Universalium
obliterate — [[t]əblɪ̱təreɪt[/t]] obliterates, obliterating, obliterated 1) VERB If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely. [V n] Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over... [V n] Whole villages were… … English dictionary
obliterate — UK [əˈblɪtəreɪt] / US [əˈblɪtəˌreɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms obliterate : present tense I/you/we/they obliterate he/she/it obliterates present participle obliterating past tense obliterated past participle obliterated 1) to destroy something … English dictionary
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Galvatron — is the name of several fictional Transformers, most often the recreated version of Megatron, the Decepticon Supreme Commander. Transformers: Generation 1Transformers character name = Galvatron caption = Galvatron affiliation = Decepticon subgroup … Wikipedia
concretio cordis — Extensive adhesion between parietal and visceral layers of the pericardium with partial or complete obliteration of the pericardial cavity. SYN: internal adhesive pericarditis. * * * con·cre·tio cor·dis .kän krēt ē ō kȯrd əs n adhesive… … Medical dictionary
MODERN TIMES – FROM THE 1880S TO THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY — introduction effects of anti jewish discrimination in russia pogroms and mass emigration german jewry racism and antisemitism The Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s In Soviet Russia after 1917 new types of social organization contribution to… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
