obliterate
These farmers are seeing the complete obliteration of everything they've known.
A terrible loneliness resulted from the obliteration of her short-term memories.
As individuals, our survival or obliteration is dependant on how connected we are with the world.
The destruction of these monuments is tantamount to an obliteration of our history.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Destroying and demolishing
annihilate
annihilation
apocalypse
bash
bash through (something)
be sacrificed on the altar of somethingidiom
costly
dynamite
erosion
erosional
erosionally
erosive
saboteur
sack
sacking
sacrifice
scarred
self-destruct
sink
wipe

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Covering and adding layers

Examples of obliteration

obliteration
This may be due to the obliteration of deviating migration routes, but it can also indeed reflect the joint migration of allied clans.
The slow process causing later occlusion might be due to slow obliteration of the shunt, possibly aggravated by an acute illness.
Modern history has witnessed the formation and obliteration of borders with the movement of immigrants, health-care workers, diseases, and scientific ideas.
Read one way - by emphasizing the word ' ' covering ' ' - the line denotes the obliteration of the land by the ' ' stuff ' ' of contemporary life.
Partial obliteration of their lumens by atherotic changes will also impair flow, and may exacerbate the effects of uterine contractions by reducing the closing dimensions.
The fourth group of patients had obliteration of the apical trabecular component together with a small infundibulum.
The upper collateral was left patent to provide blood flow to the unifocalized left lung but a silk "snare " was left for later obliteration.
Repair was effected by obliteration of the major orifice using an over and over running suture, leaving the smaller orifice to function alone.
Such an alternative vision was made unthinkable through the obliteration of certain evocative places.
She unconsciously seeks obliteration, preferring to be transformed into someone beautiful and popular.
These fragments will be seen to cause the complete obliteration of the early interior flow phenomena in the schlieren photographs.
This news report, then, presented literally the structural and spacial obliteration of the public sphere.
By occluding the large fistula without obliteration of the cavity, the right ventricular dependent coronary circulation remained intact.
For some, the war brought about a human and material obliteration without precedent; for others the destruction was almost non-existent.
There was obliteration of the infundibular segment, without any remnant of the pulmonary valve and pulmonary trunk.
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