oblitérer
French, verb/ɔ.bli.te.ʁe/
oblitérer is spelled O-B-L-I-T-É-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oblitérer is a French verb meaning “to fade out (memories)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Effacer, user, surtout en parlant de ce qui a souffert des injures du temps, ou de quelque autre cause…”.
What does oblitérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fade out (memories)
- 2
to block, block up, obstruct
- 3
to cancel (a stamp); stub (a ticket, so that it is no longer valid)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Effacer, user, surtout en parlant de ce qui a souffert des injures du temps, ou de quelque autre cause naturelle. 2. Imprimer une marque sur un timbre-poste, un billet de transport en commun, etc., pour dater et valider son emploi afin qu’il ne puisse plus servir à nouveau. 3. Amoindrir, affaiblir, diminuer, effacer progressivement. 4. Disparaître, ou avoir tendance à disparaître.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of oblitérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- oblitérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- oblitéré participle past
- oblitère first-person indicative present
- oblitères indicative present second-person
- oblitérons first-person indicative plural
- oblitérez indicative plural present
- oblitèrent indicative plural present
- oblitérais first-person imperfect indicative
- oblitérait imperfect indicative singular
- oblitérions first-person imperfect indicative
- oblitériez imperfect indicative plural
- oblitéraient imperfect indicative plural
- oblitérai first-person historic indicative
- oblitéras historic indicative past
- oblitéra historic indicative past
- oblitérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oblitérer?
- /ɔ.bli.te.ʁe/
- \ɔ.bli.te.ʁe\
- [o.bli.t̪e.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oblitérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oblitérer in French?
oblitérer appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).