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
Many of these refuges have since been obliterated.
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Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
The serial number on the rifle was obliterated and unreadable.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
The film charts the story of an unhoused man whose once-stable life is obliterated by gambling and alcohol addiction.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
By the following day, the Palisades and the historic community of Altadena, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of downtown, had been obliterated, in the most destructive urban wildfires in Southern California history.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
The serial number on the rifle was obliterated and unreadable.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
The film charts the story of an unhoused man whose once-stable life is obliterated by gambling and alcohol addiction.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
By the following day, the Palisades and the historic community of Altadena, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of downtown, had been obliterated, in the most destructive urban wildfires in Southern California history.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliterate
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And grocery stores where the majority of customers use these benefits could close, said Gina Plata-Nino, the interim SNAP director for the Food Research and Action Center, a national nonprofit that works to eradicate hunger.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
3 Oct. 2025
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FellinAI‘s first feature, The Sweet Idleness, imagines a world in which machines have eradicated 99% of jobs, leaving humans to a life of leisure.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
2 Oct. 2025
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One swing of the bat has erased all of that, and Judge now has another (contrary to popular belief) significant postseason moment.—
Andrew Wright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 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,
8 Oct. 2025
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However, when your organization was founded less than 45 years after slavery was abolished, when Black women were still being forced to be wet nurses to the very children of those who oppressed them and lynching was a common occurrence below the Mason-Dixon Line?—
Essence,
Essence,
3 Oct. 2025
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The European Parliament has twice called for Yahaya’s release, asking Nigeria to set an example by abolishing the blasphemy laws under which he has been detained for over five years.—
Sean Nelson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Two months after historic floods swept through the Milwaukee area, new data shows that nearly 2,200 homes throughout Milwaukee County sustained major damage or were destroyed.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Police in Florida are searching for two men caught on camera destroying a mall store while stealing thousands of dollars in merchandise.—
Pilar Arias,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Obliterate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliterate. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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