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
This obliterated most of the giant reefs formed by countless generations of oysters growing on top of each other.
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JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
Hurricane Melissa is tied for third place with one of the most devastating storms of all time, the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which killed more than 400 people and obliterated Islamorada and most of the middle Keys.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
They were designed to obliterate key mountain passes, bridges, or harbors in the event of a Soviet invasion.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
The racial reconciliation movement has been obliterated.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
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JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
Hurricane Melissa is tied for third place with one of the most devastating storms of all time, the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which killed more than 400 people and obliterated Islamorada and most of the middle Keys.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
They were designed to obliterate key mountain passes, bridges, or harbors in the event of a Soviet invasion.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
The racial reconciliation movement has been obliterated.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliterate
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His replacement, Nuno Espirito Santo, is another pragmatist, but West Ham’s performances had been so muddled as to eradicate hope, the nadir being a 2-0 home defeat by Brentford in which the hosts, despite the cost of their squad, already resembled a Championship team.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Organizers are unrolling multiple methods for eradicating these issues in 2026.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
10 Nov. 2025
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The drop in SoftBank shares has erased nearly $50 billion in market cap over two days.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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For more than 100 years, enslaved people lived and labored in the colonies, but after the Revolutionary War, northern states eventually abolished most forms of enslavement by the early 1800s, led by Vermont in 1777.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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Trump has spent the last week-plus pressuring Republicans to abolish the filibuster to end the government shutdown, now the longest in history, through a simple majority vote in the Senate.—
Christian Datoc,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Nov. 2025
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So, automation can be used to destroy labor or workers’ power, but it can also be used in the opposite direction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Homes, businesses and synagogues were destroyed.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Obliterate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliterate. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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