Thesaurus / obliteration
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In Mottley’s view, that obliteration was “like a nuclear event.”
BARBADOS RESISTS CLIMATE COLONIALISM IN AN EFFORT TO SURVIVE THE COSTS OF GLOBAL WARMINGBY ABRAHM LUSTGARTENJULY 27, 2022PROPUBLICAIn a sense, all of our yards and gardens, no matter how old, represent an obliteration of the wild plant communities that once marked the land, none more poignantly lost than the American prairie.
A NATIVE PLANT DESIGNER’S MEMOIR REFLECTS ON A LIFE IN THE FIELDADRIAN HIGGINSAUGUST 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThis way, when they are yanked from their sleep by the thunderous explosion accompanying the obliteration of a nearby building, their Baba is already by their side, ready to comfort them without a moment’s delay.
I'VE TRIED TO KEEP MY KIDS SAFE THROUGH 3 BOMBARDMENTS OF GAZA. IT'S NEVER BEEN LIKE THIS BEFOREFADI ABU SHAMMALAMAY 20, 2021TIMEThis dementia progresses until finally there is a state of almost complete obliteration of the mental faculties.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEYThere results not only considerable obliteration of the main design, but confusion in the substituted one.
THE LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCEIts wool was subtly, silky white, Color of lucent obliteration of night, Like the shimmering snow or—our Clothild's arm!
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUSWe have already seen that occult practices may lead to the obliteration of all sense of truth and of normal sexual instincts.
SECRET SOCIETIES AND SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTSNESTA H. WEBSTERThat the general question of property is at all affected by the obliteration of this interest, is an egregious error.
THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. 2, NO. 2, AUGUST, 1862VARIOUSBut what we take for a force which moderates and rules, may it not be rather an obliteration of the faculty of feeling (hardness)?
THE AESTHETICAL ESSAYSFRIEDRICH SCHILLERHe need not seek self-obliteration, losing himself in far-away, tropic islands, or the ice-bound regions of the uttermost South.
THE HISTORY OF SIR RICHARD CALMADYLUCAS MALETWORDS RELATED TO OBLITERATION
- abolishment
- abrogation
- annihilation
- annulment
- cancellation
- defeasance
- destruction
- dissolution
- elimination
- end
- ending
- eradication
- extirpation
- invalidation
- negation
- nullification
- obliteration
- overthrow
- overturning
- quashing
- repeal
- repudiation
- rescinding
- rescindment
- rescission
- revocation
- subversion
- suppression
- termination
- voiding
- wiping out
- withdrawal
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