the complete destruction of every trace of something
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Obliteration \Ob*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. obliteratio: cf. F. oblit['e]ration.] The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. --Sir. M. Hale.
But the end result will be the effective obliteration of the only fiscal criterion that made an iota of sense.
'The near total absorption of intellectual life by the universities,' say some critics, 'marks the decline, if not the obliteration, of the 'intellectual' as a social type.'