英语词汇“obliteration”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINobliterate

Origin:

1500-1600 Latin past participle of obliterare, from litera ‘letter’

VERB TABLE

obliterate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	obliterate
	he, she, it	obliterates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	obliterated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have obliterated
	he, she, it	has obliterated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had obliterated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will obliterate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have obliterated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am obliterating
	he, she, it	is obliterating
	you, we, they	are obliterating
Past	I, he, she, it	was obliterating
	you, we, they	were obliterating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been obliterating
	he, she, it	has been obliterating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been obliterating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be obliterating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been obliterating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Entire sections of the city were obliterated by the repeated bombing.
Frequent flooding eventually obliterated all traces of the community that used to live there.
Large areas of the city were obliterated during World War II.
The thick smog hung in the air, obliterating the hills from view.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Especially that part she wanted to obliterate.
His productivity and avidity for life could not obliterate an inner malaise.
I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces.
In addition, an AR-IS semiautomatic rifle with an obliterated serial number was found abandoned on the riverbank.
Perhaps he could obliterate the signature?
Soon the screen was obliterated by the fuzz of burning light behind Ari's eyes.
Who among us is so righteous that a sane society would entrust her with the power to obliterate a city?

THESAURUS► destroy

to damage something so badly that it no longer exists or cannot be used or repaired: · The earthquake almost completely destroyed the city.· The twin towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack.

► devastate

to damage a large area very badly and destroy many things in it: · Allied bombings in 1943 devastated the city.· The country’s economy has been devastated by years of fighting.

► demolish

to completely destroy a building, either deliberately or by accident: · The original 15th century house was demolished in Victorian times.· The plane crashed into a suburb of Paris, demolishing several buildings.

► flatten

to destroy a building or town by knocking it down, bombing it etc, so that nothing is left standing: · The town centre was flattened by a 500 lb bomb.

► wreck

to deliberately damage something very badly, especially a room or building: · The toilets had been wrecked by vandals.· They just wrecked the place.

► trash

informal to deliberately destroy a lot of the things in a room, house etc: · Apparently, he trashed his hotel room while on drugs.

► obliterate

formal to destroy a place so completely that nothing remains: · The nuclear blast obliterated most of Hiroshima.

► reduce something to ruins/rubble/ashes

to destroy a building or town completely: · The town was reduced to rubble in the First World War.

► ruin

to spoil something completely, so that it cannot be used or enjoyed: · Fungus may ruin the crop.· The new houses will ruin the view.

Longman Language Activatorto destroy an area or place► destroy

to damage something so badly that it cannot be repaired: · The earthquake destroyed much of the city.· In Brazil the rainforests are gradually being destroyed.· The factory was almost completely destroyed by fire.

► devastate

to cause so much damage over a large area that most of the buildings, trees, and crops there are destroyed: · A huge explosion devastated the downtown area last night.· The country has been devastated by floods.· Years of war have devastated this island nation.

► wreck

to deliberately damage a building or room very badly: · He came home drunk again, threatening to wreck the apartment.· Bulldozers were brought in to wreck the tents and shacks that protesters had put up.

► be flattened

if an area such as a town or forest is flattened all the buildings or trees there are destroyed by bombs, storms etc: · It will cost $400 million to rebuild the houses that were flattened in the fighting.be flattened by: · Thousands of miles of woodland were flattened by storms last month.

► obliterate

to destroy a place so completely that nothing remains, and it is difficult to see or imagine what was once there: · Entire sections of the city were obliterated by the repeated bombing.· Frequent flooding eventually obliterated all traces of the community that used to live there.

► be ravaged by

if a place or an area is ravaged by war, fire etc, it is very badly damaged and a lot of it is destroyed - used especially in newspapers and news reports: · The country has been ravaged by civil war for the last 10 years.· North Africa and the Middle East are regularly ravaged by plagues of locusts.

► reduce something to rubble/ashes etc

to completely destroy a building: · Their new two-storey house had been reduced to ashes in the fire.· We won't stand by while developers reduce the historic remains of the city to rubble.

► trash

informal to deliberately destroy a lot of the things in a room, house, etc: · Someone had broken in and trashed her apartment.· Band members have been accused of trashing their hotel rooms.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► memory

· To obliterate the memory of Sylvie.· Why else would they have tried to obliterate her memory?