as in erases
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 obliterates
In this new gem, the USS Farragut is on a planetary survey of Helicon Gamma when a shark-like scavenger spaceship appears and obliterates the planet.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Loktev grants us glimpses of life lived on the margins of that work, and the unwavering steadiness of her gaze obliterates any distinctions between the personal, the professional, and the political.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Evidence in recent times obliterates that, with the emergence of Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri last season and the extraordinary elevation of 15-year-old Max Dowman to the first team being carefully managed by Arteta, his coaching staff, the club’s safeguarding team and the teenager’s family.
—Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Loktev grants us glimpses of life lived on the margins of that work, and the unwavering steadiness of her gaze obliterates any distinctions between the personal, the professional, and the political.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Evidence in recent times obliterates that, with the emergence of Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri last season and the extraordinary elevation of 15-year-old Max Dowman to the first team being carefully managed by Arteta, his coaching staff, the club’s safeguarding team and the teenager’s family.
—Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliterates
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The Amazon Basin builds and erases its own geography through its rivers.—
Isa Cardona,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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This turnover erases institutional knowledge, disrupts relationships, and leads to inconsistent policy enforcement.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
1 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Aug. 2025
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Each participant had lost central vision in one eye due to dry AMD, which destroys light-sensitive macular cells over time.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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An arson fire destroys the 43-year-old Globe Theatre on March 8 (the arsonist was never caught, but a firebug had set several blazes in the park that winter).—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Obliterates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliterates. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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