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obliteration

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
obliterate /əˈblɪtəreɪt/

▶verb

1 destroy utterly; wipe out.

2 blot out; erase.

– derivatives
obliteration noun,
obliterative /-rətɪv/ adjective,
obliterator noun.

– origin C16: from L. obliterat-, obliterare ‘strike out, erase’, based on littera ‘letter, something written’.

'obliteration' also found in these Oxford entries:

obliterate - wipeout

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