- past tense form of obliterate.
- past participle of obliterate.
obliterated
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Any hope Infantino might have had of tiptoeing away from the scene of his World Cup private-investment wreckage having sustained only minor damage to his reputation has been obliterated.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Morishita was born in Hiroshima in 1948, three years after the city was obliterated by an atomic bomb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush — a man whose own presidential campaign was obliterated by a reality TV host — called a Pratt campaign video “maybe the best political ad of the year.”
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
‘We gotta stay with it,” said Marcus Smart, who has been obliterated by the Thunder’s physical guards.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
His personality, his sense of himself, had been obliterated.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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