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OBLITERATE
Definition of OBLITERATE
verb
To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
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Where it comes from
(start of 17th century) From earlier obliterat, learned borrowing from Latin obliterātus, oblitterātus (“having been blotted out, effaced, erased; having been forgotten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)). Obliterātus and oblitterātus are respectively the perfect passive participles of obliterō and oblitterō (“to blot out, efface, erase, obliterate; to cause to be forgotten”), probably either:
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OBLITERATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 120, 17 September 2026.
Built from these letters
OBLITERATE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEEILORTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once.
Words that start OBLITE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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