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obliteration

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Synonyms and Antonyms of obliteration

the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless

the ill-advised obliteration of the town's historic district in order to make way for a shopping mall

Synonyms of obliteration

annihilation, decimation, demolishment, demolition, desolation, destruction, devastation, extermination, extinction, havoc, loss, ruin, ruination, wastage, wreckage

Words Related to obliteration

depredation, despoilment, despoliation

breakup, collapse, disintegration, dissolution

assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter

dismantlement, effacement, eradication

Near Antonyms of obliteration

rescue, salvage, salvation, saving

conservation, preservation, protection

reclamation, reconstruction, re-creation, refurbishment, regeneracy, remodeling, renovation, restoration

Antonyms of obliteration

building, construction, erection, raising

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