Meanings (ES + gloss)
aniquilar • arrasar • borrar • destruir • obliterar • remover
To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
All tenderness for the feelings of others, all selfrespect, all sense of the becoming, were obliterated from his [George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys's] mind.
The Four Years' War is over— […] A new race, a young and lusty generation, already sweeps in with oceanic currents, obliterating the war, and all its scars, its mounded graves, and…
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