| Main Entry: | obliteration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annihilation |
Synonyms: |
abolishing, abolition, assassinating, bane, carnage, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishing, extinguishment, extirpation, havoc, invalidating, invalidation, liquidation, loss, massacre, murder, overthrow, ravaging, ruin, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaughter, slaying, subjugation, subversion, subverting, undoing, wreckage, wrecking |
| Main Entry: | obliteration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | erasure |
Synonyms: |
blotting out, canceling, cancellation, crossing out, deleting, deletion, effacing, eradication, expunction, expunging, rubbing out, scratching out, wiping out |
| Concept: | [Suppression of sign] Obliteration. |
| Category: | 1. Natural Means |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
obliteration; erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot; tabula rasa; effacement, extinction.
-verbs
efface, obliterate, erase, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge., be effaced; leave no trace; "leave not a rack behind."
-adjectives
obliterated; out of print; printless; leaving no trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
-phrases
delenda est Carthago [Cato].
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Antonyms: |
record |
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| Main Entry: | abolition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal act of putting an end to, annulling |
Synonyms: |
abolishment, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, cancellation, 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 |
Antonyms: |
confirmation, establishment, establishment, institution, legalization, promotion |
| Main Entry: | annulment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | voiding an agreement |
Synonyms: |
abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, breakup, cancellation, countermanding, dedomiciling, deletion, discharge, dissolution, erasing, going phfft, invalidation, negation, neutralization, nullification, obliteration, recall, repeal, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retraction, reversal, revocation, split up, split*, undoing, vitiation, voiding |
Antonyms: |
enactment, restoration, retention, validation |
| Main Entry: | big win |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming success or victory |
Synonyms: |
coup, coup d'etat, obliteration |
| Main Entry: | concealment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hiding, secrecy |
Synonyms: |
beard, blind, camouflage, cover, cover-up, covering, curtain, disguise, dissimulation, fig leaf, front, hide-out, hideaway, laundromat, mask, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, privacy, red herring, secretion, smoke screen, veil, wraps |
Antonyms: |
disclosure, divulgence, exposition, revelation, showing, telling |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
Synonyms: |
afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
Antonyms: |
being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
| Main Entry: | eclipse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shadowing of the sun |
Synonyms: |
concealment, darkening, decline, diminution, dimming, extinction, extinguishment, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, penumbra, shading, shroud, veil |
| Main Entry: | nothing/nothingness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness, nonexistence |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, aught, blank, cipher, extinction, fly speck, insignificancy, naught, nihility, nobody, nonbeing, nonentity, not anything, nought, nullity, obliteration, oblivion, shutout, trifle, void, wind*, zero*, zilch, zip |
Antonyms: |
capacity, fullness |