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Obliteration

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annihilationnounThe act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
eradicationnounThe act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

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annihilationnounThe act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
eradicationnounThe act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
destructionnounThe act of destroying.
erasurenounThe action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
deletionnounThe act of deleting.
disappearancenounThe action of disappearing or vanishing.
disappearingnoundisappearance
massacrenounThe killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
shatteringnounThe act of something that shatters; the shattered material.
cancellationnounThe act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
shreddingnounThe act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
forgivenessnounThe action of forgiving.
write-offnoun(accounting) The cancellation of an item; the amount cancelled or lost.
rasurenoun(now rare, law) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
wipeoutnoun(surfing) The act of falling off one's surfboard.
exterminationnounThe act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
annulmentnoun(law) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
erasementnounerasure; obliteration
destroyalnoun(uncommon) destruction.
blue ruinnounComplete and utter ruin, desolation.

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