Sample sentences for OBLITERATE

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Definition

do away with completely

Hillary Clinton warned Iran that the U.S. could obliterate them if they were foolish enough to attack Israel.

obliterate = do away with completely

obliterate = destroy (do away with)

The snow was covering everything, burying the mountain lion's tracks and obliterating his scent.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony

obliterating = doing away with completely

We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city, said Harry Truman.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

obliterate = destroy (do away with completely)

For a second, I swear, I see it in Mother's eyes too, beneath her worry that Father has obliterated my future.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

obliterated = completely done away with (destroyed)

But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers' past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

obliterate = do away with completely

We're all going to be obliterated no matter what.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

obliterated = completely done away with (killed/destroyed)

Maybe the secret was to get it as smooth as possible, not to trim it, but to obliterate it.
Alex Flinn -- Beastly

obliterate = eliminate it completely (do away with it)

...not unless all of Western civilization were obliterated.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

obliterated = completely done away with

"R-a-z-e means destroy."
"Obliterate," Annabeth said. "Annihilate. Turn to rubble."
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

obliterate = do away with completely

"Let's get out of here," I yell to nobody and renew my pedaling, fear and panic having obliterated any weariness, any aching muscles.
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese

obliterated = done away with completely

13 was said to have been obliterated in the war between the Capitol and the districts
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

obliterated = completely destroyed

The entire world was obliterated—for a few minutes.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted

obliterated = completely done away with

I imagined a person stepping outside and catching a leaflet in the wind, a leaflet that said, Your city will be obliterated unless your government surrenders,
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach

obliterated = completely destroyed

Nothing can excuse it; nothing can atone for it, - for nothing can recall those years of cursed credulity; nothing obliterate them
Bronte, Anne -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I remained by the door, fearing to obliterate any clues.
Christie, Agatha -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
It would almost seem as if Nature herself had tried to obliterate the evil signs of what had occurred.
Stoker, Bram -- The Lair of the White Worm
Lever at last hit on a plan to cover, since he might not obliterate, the disgrace.
Chesterton, Gilbert K. -- The Innocence Of Father Brown
One gesture from him could obliterate me, a single word shackle me to his vessel!
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
His personality, his sense of himself, had been obliterated.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy

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