Meaning & use
Obliviate
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To cause to be forgotten or erased from memory; to wipe out or blot out.
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The old records were obliviated by decades of neglect and decay.
He wished he could obliviate the embarrassing memory entirely.
A note on using this word
A rare, mostly archaic verb related to 'oblivion'; it gained modern pop-culture recognition as the name of a memory-erasing spell in the Harry Potter novels.
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