obliterate
verb (used with object)
to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
had been obliterating
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past perfect progressiveof obliterate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Shadows, dark and heavy, struck again and again across the place where the heart of the moon had been, obliterating it altogether.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
