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What does obliteration mean?

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Noun
  1. The total destruction of something.
  2. The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
  3. (medicine) 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).
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This is why the Bloc will forever be in opposition purgatory before its eventual obliteration at the polls.
The usual finding is an area of obliteration in the portal vein surrounded by a large number of collateral vessels.
It means disorganization, destruction, obliteration, of the institutions of government and nationhood.
Over time, the process of restoration of traditional cults turned to whole-scale obliteration of all things associated with Akhenaten.
But whether the name change means obliteration or maturation, we should not make the mistake of imagining that it means nothing at all.
The irony was that this glorification of the individual was coterminous with its complete obliteration.

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