obliterate
verb (used with object)
to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
is obliterating
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present progressiveof obliterate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Open at Winged Foot by six strokes, is obliterating the ball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2020
I’m seeing it in my dreams too, only it isn’t a barn that the plane is obliterating ... it’s my laptop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
The #MeToo reckoning is obliterating much of the silence.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2018
For man is now overcoming space faster than he is obliterating national peculiarities.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
Korvan thinks there's been an epidemic of something that is obliterating the blue spots on everybody that catches it.
From This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster
