obliteration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The total destruction of something.

   This illustration depicts exoplanet Kepler-1658b (left), doomed to eventual obliteration by its aging host star.

2. 2
   noun

   The concealing or covering of something.

   Winter, in coming to the country hereabout, advanced in well-marked stages, wherein might have been successively observed the retreat of the snakes, the transformation of the ferns, the filling of the pools, a rising of fogs, the embrowning by frost, the collapse of the fungi, and an obliteration by snow.

3. 3
   noun

   The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.

   Whitman did censor himself often enough, changing pronouns in some passages, excising others, learning, in short, the "strategies of concealment" forced on him by the nineteenth century. None of these obliterations, however, can excuse the endeavors of literary critics, who have tried to deny the importance of "sexuality" in the poetry by focusing on its "mystical" or its "universal" aspects.

4. 4
   noun

   destruction by annihilating something

From obliterate + -ion.

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