OBLIVION


Meaning of OBLIVION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

consign

Their works have disappeared as a result, and there are many more interesting things that have been consigned to oblivion .

This city forgets the good with the bad; all are consigned to the same oblivion .

If the achievements of the Thatcher years were not to be consigned to oblivion , then a tactical retreat was necessary.

pass

A much more flexible and pro-active strategy was needed, unless Labour was to pass into total oblivion .

Many of her thoughts pass into oblivion , while the occasional thought comes true to life.

sink

Curling up beneath the window she sank into gorgeous oblivion .

So should we let them sink into oblivion and folklore?

Its decrees sank immediately into oblivion .

Anton Flettner's way of extracting power from the wind presents too many advantages to sink into oblivion .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

CDs continue to push vinyl records toward oblivion .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A few hours of oblivion probably, but failing that, Faber.

A much more flexible and pro-active strategy was needed, unless Labour was to pass into total oblivion .

And by the end of the war, the issue had fallen into oblivion .

Death and oblivion were down there, waiting for the movie to be over.

It loomed over the Angara River like a great rectangular tombstone, moldering toward oblivion in stunning disrepair.

The provisions of the Reconstruction amendments to the Constitution and various related statutes were relegated to oblivion .

They were not dropped into the oblivion of the Gulag archipelago or the Lubianka.

This city forgets the good with the bad; all are consigned to the same oblivion .

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