Obliviate

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To forget; to wipe from existence. archaic, transitive

    "Near-synonym: obliterate"

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forgetforgetobliterate

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"Time has not yet obliviated the veneration of our jacobins for France, while she was seething with faction and blood […]"

Etymology

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”).

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