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obliterate in English:

1. get rid of


I need to get rid of the junk that's lying around my house. Do you want any of it?
get rid of this old car
When are you going to get rid of it?
I used weedkiller to get rid of the weeds in the garden.
To get rid of the everyday stress
I had to get rid of a lot of garbage after the party.
[We're moving, so we have to get rid of a lot of our furniture.]
The basic idea of a gadget swap party, is not only to get rid of things you don't want anymore
The mission of the two squadrons was to get rid ofall the Scud missile launchers. We must get rid of this deficit, which is why we need economic governance.
That shirt is really ugly. Why don't you get rid of it?
We must get rid of some of those old books. / I can't seem to get rid of this headache.
I will get rid of all 4/10 and I will change them to 10/10.
get rid of one's cold / get rid of the problem
What do you think of people who get rid of unwanted puppies by drowning them in a lake?
I should get rid of unnecessary things

2. destroy completely



3. wipe out


wipe out natural habitats
... we systematically and definitively wipe out all the anomalous spellings...

4. to remove all signs of something



English word "obliterate"(to remove all signs of something) occurs in sets:

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