Both Uses of
obliterate
in
Fearless
- Both solid operators who didn't get obliterated.†
p. 164.3obliterated = completely done away with
- And it was unlikely that anything in these SEALs' careers would match their rotation in 2008, when they'd obliterated the network of insurgents and IED builders in Iraq with back-to-back nightly raids and sometimes back-to-back raids in a single night.†
p. 259.8 *
Definition:
to completely destroy or wipe out so that nothing remains -- either physically or figuratively