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    Hillary Clinton warned Iran that the U.S. could obliterate them if they were foolish enough to attack Israel.†
    obliterate = completely destroy
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    ...not unless all of Western civilization were obliterated.  (source)
    obliterated = completely done away with
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    We're all going to be obliterated no matter what.  (source)
    obliterated = completely done away with (killed/destroyed)
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    For a second, I swear, I see it in Mother's eyes too, beneath her worry that Father has obliterated my future.  (source)
    obliterated = completely done away with (destroyed)
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    Maybe the secret was to get it as smooth as possible, not to trim it, but to obliterate it.  (source)
    obliterate = eliminate it completely (do away with it)
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    The snow was covering everything, burying the mountain lion's tracks and obliterating his scent.  (source)
    obliterating = doing away with completely
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    'I dunno if you got through to him,' said Ron a short while later when, having checked that the coast was clear, they walked back up to the castle through the thickening snow, leaving no trace behind them due to the Obliteration Charm Hermione was performing as they went.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He completely obliterates himself in everything, and looks only for permission to serve where service is most disagreeable, and where others would not be attracted.†  (source)
    obliterates = does away with completely
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    In place of it a tall new building of modern Gothic design, unfamiliar to English eyes, had been erected on a new piece of ground by a certain obliterator of historic records who had run down from London and back in a day.†  (source)
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    "Let's get out of here," I yell to nobody and renew my pedaling, fear and panic having obliterated any weariness, any aching muscles.  (source)
    obliterated = done away with completely
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    We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city, said Harry Truman.  (source)
    obliterate = destroy (do away with completely)
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    He seethed in anger at the pounding of their footsteps, and the voices rising around him like the tide of some obliterating sea.†  (source)
    obliterating = doing away with completely
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    We'd survived the EMP attack, the obliteration of the coasts, the plague that wasted everyone we knew and loved.†  (source)
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