All 4 Uses of
obliterate
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.†
p. 53.8 *obliterated = completely done away with
- Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!†
p. 83.4
- Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.†
p. 83.8
- He wished as much as possible to obliterate the memory of the scenes that had taken place in Ireland and never alluded to them or suffered me to speak of my misfortunes.†
p. 190.8
Definition:
to completely destroy or wipe out so that nothing remains -- either physically or figuratively