obliviate
1 synonym and 1 antonym for obliviate, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To make someone forget something, or to erase it completely.
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Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
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Etymology
Formed from oblivion and -ate (a verb-forming suffix). Oblivion itself comes either from Old French oblivion (13th century) or directly from Latin oblīviō, ultimately from oblīvīscor (“to forget”), which originally meant “even out, smooth over, erase”; this may further come from ob- (“against, towards”) plus the root o...
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