obliterations
Total wipeouts performed
Obliterations are acts of completely destroying or erasing something, leaving no trace.
The word applies to physical destruction the obliterations caused by the bombing and to erasure of records, memories, or marks careful obliterations in the manuscript.
What's obliterated isn't merely damaged—it's wiped out entirely.
Total elimination of something
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- wipeoutComplete, catastrophic failure
- extirpationComplete destruction or removal
elimination · purge · liquidation · nullification · effacement · erasure · abolition · dissolution
Decayed structural remains
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- havocWidespread destruction and chaos
ravaging · catastrophe · aftermath · collapse · rubble · carnage · wasteland · razing
eradication
Total elimination of something
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- wipeoutComplete, catastrophic failure
extirpation · elimination · purge · liquidation · nullification · effacement · erasure · abolition · dissolution · decimation
ruins
Decayed structural remains
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- destructionAct of completely ruining
havoc · ravaging · catastrophe · aftermath · collapse · rubble · carnage · wasteland · razing · leveling
obliterationspreservations
Acts of keeping safe
conservations · salvations · protections · rescues · maintenances
obliterationscommemorations
Acts honoring past events
memorializations · documentations · remembrances · recordings · immortalizations
obliterationscreations
Things made anew
constructions · generations · establishments · formations · foundations