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
This, to put it mildly, is not ideal, not when it is put together with the kind of afternoon which obliterates mitigation.
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George Caulkin, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliterates
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Commutation only reduces the punishment for a crime, whereas a full pardon erases a conviction.—
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Take the quiz here … ‘STOP THAT’ – Comedian calls out 'anti-Christian feel' after mall erases Christmas from tree-lighting.—
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Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.—
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.—
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.—
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Accordingly, the treatments misprescribed can be ineffective at best and harmful at worst, all while the parasite further destroys the cornea.—
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The bill also establishes a Class A misdemeanor if someone, without authorization of the patients, alters, forges, conceals or destroys a request for medication or rescission of a request for medication to affect a health care decision.—
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“Obliterates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliterates. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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