as in to eradicate
to destroy all traces of
in a stroke, the March snowstorm obliterated our hopes for an early spring
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Recent Examples of obliterate
The war has displaced most of Gaza’s population, often multiple times, obliterated much of the territory’s urban landscape and left people overwhelmingly reliant on outside aid, which Israel has severely limited since the end of the latest ceasefire.
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Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Still, the president claimed again that the sites were obliterated during a news conference.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 28 June 2025
The studio had cleared the location of my film Sanguine Season, I was told, completely obliterated all traces of it.
—Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Those targets were obliterated, and the pilots should be given credit.
—Sonam Sheth
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
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Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Still, the president claimed again that the sites were obliterated during a news conference.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 28 June 2025
The studio had cleared the location of my film Sanguine Season, I was told, completely obliterated all traces of it.
—Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Those targets were obliterated, and the pilots should be given credit.
—Sonam Sheth
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliterate
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Davis has partnered with multiple programs to eradicate childhood hunger in the U.S. and recently launched the Davis-Tennon Foundation.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 June 2025
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Vaccines eradicated smallpox and dramatically reduced infant deaths from measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and tetanus.—
Kelsey Piper,
Vox,
27 June 2025
Verb
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Federal climate science is being systematically erased.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
1 July 2025
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The Human Constant Technological revolutions do not erase the need for human judgment.—
Solange Charas,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
Verb
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Lethal injection is the only method of execution after firing squads were abolished in 2011.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
26 June 2025
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Beginning in the 1950s, between 20 million and 25 million households gained ownership of plots of land through the government’s scheme to abolish the colonial-era zamindari system of tax-collecting landlords.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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In September 2024, the same month as the pager attack and assassination of Hezbollah’s leader, Israel launched the most extensive campaign of airstrikes in the air force’s history hitherto, destroying much of Hezbollah’s strategic surface-to-surface missile stockpiles.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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In Alzheimer’s disease, abnormal chemical changes cause the protein tau to stick to other tau molecules, which eventually form the hallmark toxic tangles that destroy neurons and the connections, or synapses, between them.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 June 2025
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“Obliterate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliterate. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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