Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of obliterating or effacing; a blotting out or wearing out; effacement; extinction.
- n. In entomology, the state of being obliterate; also, an obliterated part of a suture, margin, etc.
- n. In pathology, the closure of a canal or cavity of the body by adhesion of its walls.
Wiktionary
- n. The total destruction of something
- n. The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.
WordNet 3.0
- n. destruction by annihilating something
- n. the complete destruction of every trace of something
Examples
“Use more explosives than shown in the examples on large animals like moose, especially if total obliteration is desired.”
“In situations where total animal obliteration is necessary, it is advisable to double the amount of explosives used in the first two examples.”
“The movie ends as the remainder of Douglas's unit -- about to return to the front and certain obliteration -- sits in a tavern and grows teary-eyed listening to a German song of nostalgia, the final message being that nations 'leaders, not peoples, are the ones who want war.”
“Share prices were up and commentators generally agreed that this is the best way to avert a short-term obliteration of finance as we know it.”
“What followed can be best described as obliteration.”
“It has long been clear that the Palestinian people don't want peace with Israel unless peace can be defined as the obliteration of your adversary.”
“We didn't remove Gaddafi because his obliteration was the first move in an intelligently mapped-out strategic imperative but because Nicolas Sarkozy sniffed a political opportunity and David Cameron, in common with other European leaders, was reluctant to "stand idly by" or be said to in the very possible circumstances of slaughter in Benghazi.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“In the last 250 years the world has gathered so much momentum that it is careening towards obliteration, which is a scary thought.”
“Now she's talking "obliteration" of another country while we are embroiled in two wars.”
“We need to go with the candidate that's going to get democrats back in the white house, take action to end this war, and not threaten Iran with "obliteration"!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘obliteration’.
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fancy essay words
hiatus, ontology, exegesis, hermeneutics, dialectics, demiurge, ascertain, contention, eschatological, synecdoche, centripetal, centrifugal and 96 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 998 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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circumscribe
silty, lettuce, ingratiate, circumscribe, defection, fastidious, indolently, mitigate, inwardness, twined, deference, mottled and 100 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Philately
Definitions mainly taken from this glossary.
aerogramme, aerophilately, black jack, cachet, cancellation, cinderella, albino, album weed, ambulante, aniline ink, authentication mark, back-of-book and 104 more...
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Nakoo's list of beautiful words.
Just about any word I like at the time.
razbliuto, anaxiphilia, lipothymous, inamorata, acushla, abulia, serendipity, alexithymia, quixotic, idiosyncratic, ad nauseam, equanimity and 305 more...
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useful vocab
pysmatic, relentless, storge, preamble, oscillate, itinerary, frolic, frolicsome, abdicate, frolicking, divergent, abnegate and 312 more...
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Removal
Words related to removal.
privation, deprivation, dispossession, expulsion, extraction, abstraction, evulsion, avulsion, extrication, purgation, subduction, divestment and 8 more...
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Non-existence
inexistence, nullity, nihility, tabula rasa, nonentity, negativeness, nothingness, oblivion, annihilation, extinction, extirpation, obliteration and 15 more...
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slovenly, sully, conspicuous, sultry, enlist, ensnare, saccharine, vehement, virile, verdant, fortuitous, impetuous and 63 more...
Tweets
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reesetee In stamp collecting, the term refers to a cancellation intended solely to deface a stamp (also called a "killer"). It may also describe an overprint intended to deface a portion of the design of a stamp (such as the face of a deposed ruler). Aug 26, 2008