Sample Sentences for
obliterate
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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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    13 was said to have been obliterated in the war between the Capitol and the districts  (source)
    obliterated = completely destroyed
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    ...not unless all of Western civilization were obliterated.  (source)
    obliterated = completely done away with
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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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    Let blood and fire obliterate the world!  (source)
    obliterate = destroy (do away with)
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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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    In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self.†  (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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    The various interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the proletariat are more and more equalised, in proportion as machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low level.†  (source)
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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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    The entire world was obliterated—for a few minutes.  (source)
    obliterated = completely done away with
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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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    We stood in that obliterating whiteness, as though the world had vanished.†  (source)
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    A concentration camp is the complete obliteration of privacy.†  (source)
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