Both Uses of
obliterate
in
Childhood's End
- History was not reassuring: even the most peaceable of contacts between races at very different cultural levels had often resulted in the obliteration of the more backward society.†
Chpt 3 *
- Whatever irregularities they might once have possessed had long ago been obliterated by the ceaseless rain from the watery heights above.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(obliterate) do away with completely