obliteration

[ UK /əblˌɪtəɹˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /əˌbɫɪtɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. destruction by annihilating something
  2. the complete destruction of every trace of something
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How To Use obliteration In A Sentence

  • Isn't abbreviation a prelude to obliteration?
  • Therefore I do not doubt that little folds of skin, which originally served as ovigerous frena, but which, likewise, very slightly aided the act of respiration, have been gradually converted by natural selection into branchiae, simply through an increase in their size and the obliteration of their adhesive glands. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
  • The most typical form of malformation of the esophagus is imperforation or obliteration. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The resulting anterior wedging and angulation of adjacent vertebral bodies with disc space obliteration are responsible for the palpable spinal prominence and a classic radiographic appearance.
  • But the obliteration of Nagasaki was, if comparisons on this scale are even possible, even worse than that of Hiroshima.
  • Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called Plataea, Xerxes's hordes face obliteration! Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Within a few hours he had issued Directive No. 25, decreeing Yugoslavia's obliteration and assigning secondary roles in its conquest to Italy and Hungary.
  • It means disorganization, destruction, obliteration, of the institutions of government and nationhood.
  • The panic I felt was the risk of fact obliteration, or an inversion of truths, all the truths I had known. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
  • Chemical pleurodesis consists of the introduction of asclerosing agent into the pleural cavity to achieve symphysis of the two pleural layers and, thus, obliteration of the pleural space.
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