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单词 obliteration
释义
obliteration
noun[U]
formal
uk
/əˌblɪt.ərˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/əˌblɪt̬.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
theactionofremovingallsignsof something, either bydestroyingit or bycoveringit so that it cannot beseen:
Thewarresultedin the obliteration of hundreds ofvillages.
Thereeffacesobliteration in the nearfuture.
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  • Thesefarmersareseeingthecompleteobliteration of everything they'veknown.
  • Aterriblelonelinessresultedfrom the obliteration of hershort-termmemories.
  • Asindividuals,oursurvivalor obliteration isdependanton howconnectedwe are with theworld.
  • Thedestructionof thesemonumentsistantamountto an obliteration ofourhistory.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Destroying and demolishing
  • annihilate
  • annihilation
  • apocalypse
  • bash
  • bash through (something)
  • be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
  • fall in
  • in piecesidiom
  • indestructibility
  • killsomethingoff
  • kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
  • sacrifice
  • self-devouring
  • shred
  • sink
  • smash
  • stave
  • stavesomethingin
  • takesomethingout
  • tear
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Covering and adding layers
(Definition ofobliterationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofobliteration

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This may be due to theobliterationof deviating migration routes, but it can also indeed reflect the joint migration of allied clans.
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The slow process causing later occlusion might be due to slowobliterationof the shunt, possibly aggravated by an acute illness.
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Modern history has witnessed the formation andobliterationof borders with the movement of immigrants, health-care workers, diseases, and scientific ideas.
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Read one way - by emphasizing the word ' ' covering ' ' - the line denotes theobliterationof the land by the ' ' stuff ' ' of contemporary life.
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Partialobliterationof their lumens by atherotic changes will also impair flow, and may exacerbate the effects of uterine contractions by reducing the closing dimensions.
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The fourth group of patients hadobliterationof the apical trabecular component together with a small infundibulum.
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The upper collateral was left patent to provide blood flow to the unifocalized left lung but a silk "snare " was left for laterobliteration.
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Repair was effected byobliterationof the major orifice using an over and over running suture, leaving the smaller orifice to function alone.
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Such an alternative vision was made unthinkable through theobliterationof certain evocative places.
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She unconsciously seeksobliteration, preferring to be transformed into someone beautiful and popular.
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These fragments will be seen to cause the completeobliterationof the early interior flow phenomena in the schlieren photographs.
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This news report, then, presented literally the structural and spacialobliterationof the public sphere.
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By occluding the large fistula withoutobliterationof the cavity, the right ventricular dependent coronary circulation remained intact.
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For some, the war brought about a human and materialobliterationwithout precedent; for others the destruction was almost non-existent.
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There wasobliterationof the infundibular segment, without any remnant of the pulmonary valve and pulmonary trunk.
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