0 the action of removing all signs of something, either by destroying it or by covering it so that it cannot be seen:
These farmers are seeing the complete obliteration of everything they've known.
A terrible loneliness resulted from the obliteration of her short-term memories.
As individuals, our survival or obliteration is dependant on how connected we are with the world.
The destruction of these monuments is tantamount to an obliteration of our history.
This may be due to the obliteration of deviating migration routes, but it can also indeed reflect the joint migration of allied clans.
The slow process causing later occlusion might be due to slow obliteration of the shunt, possibly aggravated by an acute illness.
Modern history has witnessed the formation and obliteration of borders with the movement of immigrants, health-care workers, diseases, and scientific ideas.
Read one way - by emphasizing the word ' ' covering ' ' - the line denotes the obliteration of the land by the ' ' stuff ' ' of contemporary life.
