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adjective

as in destroyed

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verb

past tense of obliterate
as in erased
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 obliterated
Adjective
Despite an obliterated navy and air force, Iran wielded significant economic power in the spring. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
Verb
The Drive can confirm the Ford Mustang GTD Competition that obliterated the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X’s Nurburgring lap record was in fact rolling on street-legal tires. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 13 Aug. 2026 Walter’s agreement to purchase a controlling stake in the Lakers at the $10 billion valuation last summer obliterated that mark, and now Iger and Kushner have pushed the bar even higher. — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026 And then Conine, who had the walk-off hit for the Marlins on Monday, obliterated a middle-middle changeup from Phillies reliever Jonathan Bowlan for a 424-foot home run. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026 But, Congressman, the president, Pete Hegseth, had said they were obliterated, decimated. — ABC News, 26 July 2026 Continue reading … OPINION HUGH HEWITT – Iran's nuclear program obliterated as its military crumbles under US assault. — FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026 Platner’s defenders would never concede that his reliance on alcohol obliterated his own credibility. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026 The situation has grown bleaker in the last decade and a half as commercial pressures have ramped up and media consolidation and digital shortsightedness have obliterated arts coverage. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026 Relentless, deadly heat is tightening its grip on Europe, with temperature records expected to not just fall but be obliterated this week. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliterated
  1. extirpated
  2. erased
  3. mutilated
  4. eradicated
  5. damaged
  6. destroyed
  7. mangled
  8. abolished
Adjective
  • The plains wolf ecotype was extirpated thanks, mostly, to government eradication efforts, wildlife managers note in the report.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2026
Definition of extirpated
Verb
  • Their efforts have successfully erased half the population from public life and made Afghanistan one of the world’s most dangerous places to be a woman.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But what frightened me most was not death alone, but the idea of dying before my writings reached the world—that my story would disappear with me, and that my feelings, my memories, my identity, and my human experience would be erased.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of erased
Adjective
  • According to the Times coverage of the incident and subsequent lawsuit, the scenes shown in the classroom included autopsies, decaying cadavers and live animals being butchered, mutilated and tortured.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But the most difficult parts also offer ways forward — news that arrives via a skull, a mutilated body, evidence of closure in many respects of the word.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of mutilated
Verb
  • Smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980 and no longer naturally circulates, was once one of the world's deadliest diseases.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The Asian giant hornet—aka murder hornet—was eradicated from Washington state and hasn’t become established here.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of eradicated
Adjective
  • Many residents continued to sleep outside rather than risk returning to damaged homes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • President Abelardo de la Espriella, who had been in office for only three days when the earthquake struck, announced a reconstruction fund for damaged homes, hospitals, schools and infrastructure.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • An airstrike destroyed a house in Ansar town, killing seven people and wounding three others on Saturday morning, NNA said.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of destroyed
Adjective
  • This fencing appeared to have been lifted up and twisted, landing in a mangled and haphazard manner.
    — Mike Stunson, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • Chopper 4 was on the scene where a white car was flipped over and completely mangled.
    — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 26 May 2026
Definition of mangled
Verb
  • Fortunately, Gorbachev would drop his objections to SDI in time for both men to sign a landmark treaty in 1987 that abolished all intermediate range nuclear arms in Europe and made the entire world safer.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
  • About three-quarters of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of abolished

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