transcription, транскрипция: [ əblɪtəreɪt ]
( obliterates, obliterating, obliterated)
1.
If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely.
Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over...
VERB : V n
• oblit‧era‧tion
...the obliteration of three isolated rainforests.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N of n
2.
If you obliterate something such as a memory, emotion, or thought, you remove it completely from your mind. ( LITERARY )
There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him.
= eradicate
VERB : V n