half-obliterated

• a word derived from obliterated.
  obliterated

  adjective

  completely destroyed or done away with, so that little or no trace remains.

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half-obliterated

"This" was a narrow rutted lane, half-obliterated in the encroaching underbrush, at the end of which a weather-beaten shack squatted in a clump of zapote trees.

From The Fifth Ace by George W. Gage

She pointed to where, in a position corresponding to that of the "mark of the Valdeschi" in her own hand, there was an indentation that looked like a half-obliterated scar.

From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland

Every known adjunct was provided to carry out deception—genuinely old canvases or panels, old stretchers really worm-eaten, aged frames of the period, half-obliterated seals bearing sometimes even the cross-keys of the Vatican.

From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I loiter to examine the subjects: coats of arms, trophies of weapons, or allegories and half-obliterated love-scenes.

From The Choice of Life by Georgette Leblanc

At the end of the village I saw a granite pyramid, with the single word "Gallia" engraved upon it; a few paces farther two marble posts bore the half-obliterated arms of Spain.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various

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