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obliteration
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| obliterator
| oblivion
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obliteration
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun obliteration has 2 senses
- obliteration(n = noun.act) annihilation - destruction by annihilating something; Array is a kind of destruction, devastation
- obliteration(n = noun.event) eradication - the complete destruction of every trace of something; Array is a kind of demolition, destruction, wipeout
has particulars: atomisation, atomization, pulverisation, pulverization, vaporisation, vaporization
Derived forms verb obliterate3, verb obliterate4
Derived forms verb obliterate3, verb obliterate4, verb obliterate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
obliteration, n. [L. obliteratio: cf. F. oblitération.].
The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. Sir. M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
obliteration
Lethe, absentmindedness, blot, blotting, blotting out, cancel, cancellation, decay of memory, deletion, effacement, erasure, expunction, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, grace period, hazy recollection, heedlessness, moratorium, nepenthe, nirvana, oblivion, obliviousness, scrubbing, short memory, unmindfulness, washing out, waters of oblivion, wiping out, write-offROGET THESAURUS
obliteration
Inexistence
N inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, nonentity, nil, negativeness, nullity, nihility, nihilism, tabula rasa, blank, abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion, annihilation, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration, inexistent, nonexistent, negative, blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary, unreal, potential, virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished, annihilated extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind, defunct, fabulous, ideal, supposititious &c, negatively, virtually, non ens.Obliteration
N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.
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