Obliteration

Definitions: Obliteration

Obliteration

Noun

1. Destruction by annihilating something.

2. The complete destruction of every trace of something.

Date "obliteration" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Synonyms: Obliteration

Synonyms: annihilation (n), eradication (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inexistence	Annihilation; extinction; (destruction); extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration.
Obliteration	Noun: obliteration; erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot; tabula rasa; effacement, extinction.
Oblivion	Noun: oblivion, obliviousness, lethe; forgetfulness; Adjective: amnesia; obliteration; of, insensibility; to the past.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Obliteration

English words defined with "obliteration": Desegmentation ♦ Erasement, Erasion ♦ Rasure, Razure ♦ Synosteosis. (references)

Specialty definitions using "obliteration": computer fraud ♦ data abuse, data trespass ♦ Fuchs dimple ♦ Hepatic Vein Thrombosis ♦ Postphlebitic Syndrome ♦ Sclerosing Solutions, Sclerotherapy. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Obliteration (1984)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	West Papua: The Obliteration of a People (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Obliteration at the End of Multiplication (reference) Sonic Obliteration, Vol. 2 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It was more than obliteration, it was eclipse.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		However, in selected individuals, such as those with cochlear obliteration or in decisions regarding ear of implantation, the results of promontory stimulation may be useful. (references)
		Treatment options in such patients include oral bile acid therapy, mechanical obliteration or dissolution of stones by percutaneously or endoscopically positioned catheters or extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, and techniques that facilitate stone egress, such as endoscopic sphincterotomy or percutaneously/endoscopically placed biliary stents and cholecystostomy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Obliteration" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obliteration" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	49	48,677

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Language		Translations for "obliteration"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhdukje (abolition, disappearance, evanescence, evaporation, exit, extinction, liquidation, passing), shuarje (cancellation, effacement, erasure, evanescence, expurgation, extinction, quenching, shutdown, suppression, wane, withering), prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), harresë (forgetfulness, limbo, oblivion, rasure, silence), fshirje (defacement, deletion, effacement, erasure, rub, sweeping, wiping). (various references)

Arabic		‏محو (effacement, erasure, rubbing out, wiping off), ‏طمس (deface, defacement, efface, effacement, monthly, obliterate), ‏إبادة (annihilation, consuming, destruction, eradication, extermination). (various references)

Bulgarian		унищожаване (abolishment, abolition, annihilation, cancellation, consumption, demolition, destruction, devastation, dissolution, extermination, ruination, squelch), облитерация, зарастване (incarnation), зачертаване, заличаване (deletion, effacement, erasure), премахване (abolishment, abolition, deletion, disposal, removal, retrenchment, undoing), изтриване (abrasion, defacement, erasure, wipe), изличаване (effacement, erasure). (various references)

Czech		vymazání (deletion, effacement), vyhlazení (annihilation, eradication). (various references)

Danish		obliteration. (various references)

Dutch		obliteratie van het cavum douglasi (obliteration of Douglas pouch). (various references)

French		oblitération. (various references)

German		Vertilgung (destruction, eradication, extermination). (various references)

Greek		εξάλειψις, εξάλειψη (deletion, effacement, elimination, erase, erasure, extinction, removal), απόφραξις αυλού, τέλεια αφαίρεσις. (various references)

Hebrew		מחיקה (cancellation, cancelling, deletion, effacement, erasure), הכחדה (annihilation, extinction), הטשטשות (defacing). (various references)

Hungarian		kitörlés (effacement, wipeout, wipe-out), kiirtás (eradication, extermination, extirpation, squelch), olvashatatlanná tevés, lebetűzés, lebélyegzés (cancellation, stamping), kiradírozás, kihúzás (dash, erasure, extraction, extruding, extrusion, getting out, protraction, pulling away, pulling out, setback, throwback), húzás (cut, dash, drag, draught, draw, drawing out, gambit, haul, haulage, hitch, ploy, pull, pulling, traction, tug), elzáródás (occlusion), eltörlés (abolition, abrogation, cancellation, dissolution, recission, repeal, wipe), elmosás. (various references)

Italian		obliterazione (validation), cancellatura (cancelling, erasure). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		抹殺 (denial, erasure, ignoring). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まっさつ (denial, erasure, ignoring). (various references)

Manx		scryssey magh (abolishment, abolition, amortize, attrition, blot out, blur, blur as vision, delete, deletion, efface, erase, erasure, obliterate, scratch out, scrub, shatter, strike off, wear off), dolley magh (abolition, abrogate, abrogation, block out, cancel, cancellation, delete, erase). (various references)

Pig Latin		obliterationay

Portuguese		obliteração (effacement). (various references)

Romanian		uitare (forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, forgiving, limbo, oblivion), distrugere (damnation, demolition, destruction, eradication, erosion, holocaust, ravage, ruin, ruination, spoliation, strip), ştergere (cancellation, defacement, deletion, effacement, erasure, scraping, wipe), îndepãrtare (carrying off, departure, dismissal, elimination, removal, revulsion). (various references)

Russian		уничтожение (abolition, annihilation, annulment, demolition, destruction, eradication, extermination, nullification, ravage, spoliation, undoing), вычеркивание (cancellation, deletion, effacement, expurgation, rasure). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		otiranje, obliteracija, uništenje (annihilation, blight, breaking up, extirpation, rack, undoing, wreckage). (various references)

Spanish		obliteración (validation). (various references)

Swedish		utplånande (deletion, erasement, extirpation). (various references)

Turkish		yok etme (annihilation, disposal, effacement, elimination, eradication, extermination, extinction, tabula rasa), tahrip etme (destroying, devastating, kill), silme (cancel, cancellation, defacement, deletion, erasion, erasure, rubbing, wipe, wiping), bozma (annulment, breach, breaking, cancel, cancellation, changing, corruption, defacement, dislocation, dissolution, exchange, impairment, infraction, infringement, mutilation, perversion, ruining, spoiling, stain, violation, vitiation). (various references)

Ukranian		стирання (abrading, abrasion, attrition, defacement, deletion, effacement, erasement, erasure, rub), облітерація, згладжування (effacement), знищення (abolishment, abolition, annulment, defeasance, demolition, dispersion, extermination, extirpation, holocaust, undoing), замулювання, забуття (condonation, effacement, forgetfulness, limbo, neglect, oblivion, obliviousness, silence), патологічне закриття. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự xoá sạch, sự xoá (earsure, effacement, erasement), sự tẩy (purge), sự phá sạch, sự làm tiêu ma, sự gạch. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "obliteration": obliterations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Obliteration" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abliteration, enliteration, oblietration. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "obliteration" (pronounced 'Ob*lit`er*a"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-t-t"
	-2 letters: etiolation, liberation, literation, toleration.
	-3 letters: abolition, iteration, libration, natrolite, trilobate, trilobite.
	-4 letters: abortion, antiriot, baritone, betatron, bilinear, blottier, boltonia, inertial, laborite, libation, libretti, libretto, literati, lobation, oblation, obtainer, oriental, relation, reobtain, rotation, taborine, tailbone, titrable, tolerant, troilite, trotline.
	-5 letters: abettor, aileron, airline, alienor, arnotto, baronet, battier, battler, biotite, biotron, biretta, bittern, bittier, blatter, bloater.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: obliterations.
	+2 letters: postliberation.
	+5 letters: controllabilities.
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