Both Uses
obliterate
in
My Antonia
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- Jake was sure he could get through on horseback, and bring home our things in saddle-bags; but grandfather told him the roads would be obliterated, and a newcomer in the country would be lost ten times over.†
Book 1 *obliterated = completely done away with
- I had only to close my eyes to hear the rumbling of the wagons in the dark, and to be again overcome by that obliterating strangeness.†
Book 5obliterating = doing away with completely
Definitions:
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(1)
(obliterate) to completely destroy or wipe out so that nothing remains -- either physically or figuratively
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)