obliviates
Makes completely forgotten
Obliviates means causes to forget or wipes from memory.
The word gained currency through the Harry Potter series, where "Obliviate" is a spell that erases memories: The wizard obliviated the witnesses.
Outside that context, it sometimes appears as a fanciful alternative to "obliterates" or "makes oblivious," though this usage remains informal and uncommon.
Subdues or restrains forcibly
- quashesSuppresses or annuls
- stiflesSuppresses or restrains
- subduesOvercomes and controls
- smothersSuppresses or suffocates
squelches · silences · buries · blocks · inhibits · denies · conceals · compartmentalizes
Complete lack of awareness
- ignoranceAbsence of knowledge
- unawarenessState of not knowing
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
- heedlessnessFailure to notice danger
unmindfulness · inattention · disregard · neglect · blindness · insensibility · nescience · cluelessness
Utter, complete destruction
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
destruction · extirpation · liquidation · abolition · nullification · cancelation · removal · dissolution
represses
Subdues or restrains forcibly
smothers · squelches · silences · buries · blocks · inhibits · denies · conceals · compartmentalizes · dissociates
unconsciousness
Complete lack of awareness
- ignoranceAbsence of knowledge
- unawarenessState of not knowing
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
heedlessness · unmindfulness · inattention · disregard · neglect · blindness · insensibility · nescience · cluelessness
annihilation
Utter, complete destruction
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
elimination · destruction · extirpation · liquidation · abolition · nullification · cancelation · removal · dissolution · disintegration
obliviatesremembers
Retains in the mind
preserves · commemorates · memorializes · recalls · retains
obliviatespreserves
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conserves · maintains · protects · safeguards · restores
obliviatesenlightens
Imparts knowledge or insight
awakens · alerts · reminds · illuminates · clarifies
oblivion, obliterate, oblivious, obliviousness, obliviously, obliterator