Associations to the word «Obliteration»

Wiktionary

OBLITERATION, noun. The total destruction of something.
OBLITERATION, noun. The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.

Dictionary definition

OBLITERATION, noun. Destruction by annihilating something.
OBLITERATION, noun. The complete destruction of every trace of something.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky