obliterator

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English

Etymology

obliterate +‎ -or

Noun

obliterator (plural obliterators)

  1. One who obliterates.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 78:
      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.

Latin

Verb

obliterātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of obliterō