obliterator
Americannoun
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obliterators
plural
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a person or thing that obliterates, wipes out, or effaces.
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Philately. an instrument used to cancel or deface a postage stamp.
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An accomplished obliterator of the golf ball when he is at his best, Koepka has strangled Augusta’s par 5s.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
She sees light as the great lover lavishing caresses on the land, or the great obliterator that overwhelms the earth’s solidity, or the great designer reconfiguring common notions about what should hold our attention.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
For we are not mere human: we, too, are divine; and there is no such obliterator of the divine as the human that acts undivinely.
From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald
What happened to his overworked officials who chanced to bring their obliterators down upon the royal countenance by mistake is too awful to contemplate!
From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley Currie Johnson
But the usual obliterators of history and of records made their usual clean sweep, and it has disappeared.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
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