obliviate

Meaning

Verb

• To forget; to wipe from existence.

Origin

• Late 14th century, "state or fact of forgetting," from Old French oblivion (13th century) and directly from Latin oblīviōnem ("forgetfulness; a being forgotten"), from oblīvīscī, originally "even out, smooth over, efface," from ob- + root of lēvis, from Proto-Indo-European *lei-w-, from root *(s)lei- (see slime).
• Meaning "state of being forgotten" is early 15th century.