Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The total destruction of something.

    Zerstörung

    уничтоже́ниеuničtožénije

    зни́щенняznýščennja

    destruction by annihilating something

  2. (countable, uncountable)The concealing or covering of something.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.

    Vernichtung, Auslöschung

  4. (countable, uncountable)The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).

    Obliteration, Verödung, Verschluss

Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the total destruction of something:
Русский
By meaning 1
the total destruction of something:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
the total destruction of something:
the cancellation, erasure or deletion of something:
(medicine):

Forms

plural: obliterations
Singularobliteration
Pluralobliterations

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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