obliteration
pronunciation
How to pronounce obliteration in British English:
UK [əˌblɪtə'reɪʃn]
How to pronounce obliteration in American English:
US [əˌblɪtə'reɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- destruction by annihilating something
- the complete destruction of every trace of something
Word Origin
- obliteration (n.)
- 1650s, from Late Latin obliterationem (nominative obliteratio), noun of action from past participle stem of obliterare (see obliterate).
Example
- 1. In a dark irony it is his native country that now faces obliteration .
- 2. Irishman niall fitzgerald chairman of the industrial giant unilever forecast british economic obliteration outside the euro .
- 3. The church teaches that justification consists of an actual obliteration of sin and an interior sanctification .
- 4. Gov. haley barbour told the associated press there was " utter obliteration " in parts of yazoo county .
- 5. The policy is obliteration , openly acknowledged .