obliviate

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obliviate

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From oblivion + -ate (verb-forming suffix), itself either from Old French oblivion (13th century) or directly from Latin oblīviō, ultimately from oblīvīscor (“to forget”), originally “even out, smooth over, erase”; further perhaps from ob- (“against, towards”) + the root of lēvis (“smooth”) + -scor (“forming inchoative verbs”).

verb obliviates · obliviating · obliviated

archaic, transitive To forget; to wipe from existence. Near-synonym: obliterate
Similar: obliterate

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@misc{obliviate_2026,
  title = {obliviate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/obliviate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}