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
That blast obliterated a park boardwalk, ejecting rocks and mud hundreds of feet into the air.
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Owen Clarke, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
Minutes later, a violent explosion erupted, obliterating multiple homes and injuring six people, sending three to the hospital.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
Heath is a native of nearby Marshall that was obliterated during Helene when the French Broad River buffering the community bulldozed downtown.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2025
The overall uncanny nature of a second Kowloon Walled City becomes an overbearing symbol of its characters desire to return to a past that’s been long since obliterated.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
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Owen Clarke, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
Minutes later, a violent explosion erupted, obliterating multiple homes and injuring six people, sending three to the hospital.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
Heath is a native of nearby Marshall that was obliterated during Helene when the French Broad River buffering the community bulldozed downtown.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2025
The overall uncanny nature of a second Kowloon Walled City becomes an overbearing symbol of its characters desire to return to a past that’s been long since obliterated.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliterate
Verb
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Spider mites create webs and can be eradicated with miticide spray.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
7 Jan. 2026
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Just last week, a professor who taught at Harvard for 40 years slammed the school for its ideological homogeneity after finishing his last semester, saying that graduate programs were denying White male applicants on racial grounds and that Western civilization courses were being eradicated.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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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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The FairTax Act of 2025 was the latest bid to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and replace income tax and other levies with a national sales tax.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
6 Jan. 2026
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During his campaign, Mamdani pledged to keep the NYPD’s headcount flat, abolish the department’s controversial Strategic Response Group and get rid of its gang database — all proposals opposed by Tisch, who supports hiring more cops.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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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 8 Jan. 2026.
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