obsoletified ?

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From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 06:02:55 PDT


Would "obliviate" do? (Don't get me started on "searate" and
"capsicacious").

Derek Robinson writes:
>
> obviate: (transitive verb) To prevent from occurring
> by advance planning or
> action; to avert, forestall, forfend, preclude, debar,
> prohibit, rule out, stave off,
> render obsolete. To anticipate thus avoid the need
> for. To make unnecessary.


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