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obliterator

noun

Etymology

From obliterate + -or.

  1. derived from *h₁lengʷʰ-✻ — “not heavy, light; brief; swift”
  2. learned borrowing from obliterātus
  3. suffixed as obliterator — “obliterate + or”

Definitions

  1. One who obliterates.

    • These submerged treacheries left an atmosphere. Even two such practised obliterators of their species as Bradly and Podson could not fail to note that each was secreting a certain reservation of opinion on the other.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA