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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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Over time, the process of restoration of traditional cults turned to whole-scale obliteration of all things associated with Akhenaten.
But the obliteration of Nagasaki was, if comparisons on this scale are even possible, even worse than that of Hiroshima.
Ever since, Indigenous Peoples have been forced into submission, if not obliteration, in the name of civilization and progress all over the globe.
The present report is an example of the negligent obliteration of a page in the history of human endeavour.
Instead, with the obliteration of BR, the network lost expertise, much of it never written down but carried around in people's heads.
The usual finding is an area of obliteration in the portal vein surrounded by a large number of collateral vessels.

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