consign to oblivion
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Not their luggage, you understand, but of all the bits of their backstory that they’d like to consign to oblivion.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2017
It is easy to suppose what it must have cost our author to consign to oblivion the fruit of so much labor and so many vigils.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
It is true some injudicious Bavarian modifications were made; but time will soon consign to oblivion these delusions of Teutonic intellect.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
Well, well! let us consign to oblivion all the pranks you must have played to have been metamorphosed from a milksop to a madcap.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
It sounded as if its waters were still foaming with rage at the deed that so long ago had been enacted near at hand, and which death itself could not consign to oblivion.
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Hermann Sudermann
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