obliteration

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The total destruction of something. countable,uncountable
    — This illustration depicts exoplanet Kepler-1658b (left), doomed to eventual obliteration by its aging host star.
  2. The concealing or covering of something. countable,uncountable
    — Winter, in coming to the country hereabout, advanced in well-marked stages, wherein might have been successively observed the retreat of the snakes, the transformation of the ferns, the filling of the pools, a rising of fogs, the embrowning by frost, the collapse of the fungi, and an obliteration by snow.
  3. The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something. countable,uncountable
    — Whitman did censor himself often enough, changing pronouns in some passages, excising others, learning, in short, the "strategies of concealment" forced on him by the nineteenth century. None of these obliterations, however, can excuse the endeavors of literary critics, who have tried to deny the importance of "sexuality" in the poetry by focusing on its "mystical" or its "universal" aspects.
  4. 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). countable,uncountable

词形变化

obliterations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
abliteration angioobliteration disobliteration obliterationism vasoobliteration
相关词
obliterate obliviation oblivion

词源

Etymology tree
English obliterate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English obliteration
From obliterate + -ion.
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