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

The sun was nearly setting when at last I approached a broken-down signpost, on which, in half-obliterated characters, I could read the words, "To the Castle Inn."

From A Master of Mysteries by J. Ambrose Walton

At one corner a small wooden wicket with a half-obliterated proclamation of privacy enabled any one to pass through the wall and enter the grounds of Wychford Abbey.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie

There were no roads,—unless a wide-meshed network of half-obliterated tracks—probably old game-paths—could be described as such.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Behind it rose a thinning monument of green-black smoke, and between its tracks was a wavering line of indentations in the sand already half-obliterated by the weight of their own shallow walls.

From A Gift For Terra by Fox B. Holden

But the mysterious power which guides us when we do the unexpected thing, stayed his hands, and the half-obliterated note arrested his attention. confined in top block.

From A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day by Helen M. (Helen Maria) Winslow

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