All 3 Uses of
obliterate
in
Gone with the Wind
- Being the least analytic of people, she did not realize that this was because she possessed in some degree these same qualities, despite sixteen years of effort on the part of Ellen and Mammy to obliterate them.†
Chpt 1.2
- If Charles had inherited any of the qualities of the stern, fearless, hot-tempered soldier who had been his father, they had been obliterated in childhood by the ladylike atmosphere in which he had been reared.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- You think that by saying, 'I'm sorry,' all the errors and hurts of years past can be remedied, obliterated from the mind, all the poison drawn from old wounds…… Take my handkerchief, Scarlett.†
Chpt 5.63
Definition:
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(obliterate) do away with completely