Obliteration vs Destroy - What's the difference?
obliteration | destroy |
The total destruction of something
The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
As a noun obliteration
is cancellation (of a postage stamp); postmark.As a verb destroy is
to damage beyond use or repair
. obliteration
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Noun
(-)destroy
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Verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
- The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
- ''Hooligans destroy unprovoked
- ''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
- Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
- The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.