Word Finder - oblivion

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The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.

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He regularly drank himself into oblivion.

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The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, incl. through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland.

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Due to modern technology, many more people and much more information will not slip into oblivion, contrary to what happened throughout history until now.

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Amnesty.

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To consign to oblivion; to efface utterly.

The soldiers seemed determined to drink themselves into oblivion.

A considerable part of Cavendish's work was rescued from oblivion in 1879 and placed in an easily accessible form by Professor Clerk Maxwell, who edited the original manuscripts in the possession of the duke of Devonshire.'

Toward morning all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence.

Then, just as it appears to have been sinking into oblivion among the people, the clergy themselves gave it the character of a specific religious festival.

His favorite part of the video game was when he could blow the space aliens to oblivion.

There were also other minor orders in the ancient church which have fallen into oblivion or lost their clerical character.

It was as if rescuing these long forgotten remains from oblivion would somehow prove such a resurrection from years of absolute dark and loneliness would make anything possible.

The work contains accounts of John the Baptist and Jesus, which may account for the fact that Josephus' writings were rescued from oblivion by the Christians.

Let the rest of her words and actions be buried in eternal oblivion.

But that dream had been smashed to oblivion.

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Archives have been reformed, their contents catalogued or calendared; government commissions have rescued numberless documents from oblivion or destruction, and learned societies have supplemented and criticized this work and co-ordinated the results.

The dignity with which the Ottoman sultans have thereby become invested lends them that prestige throughout the Mussulman world which is of such importance to the present day, and which has thrown into oblivion the condition that the caliph ought to be an Arab of the tribe of Koreish.

Voltaire never wrote anything equal to Omars fascinating rhapsodies in praise of wine, love and all earthly joys, and his passionate denunciations of a malevolent and inexorable fate which dooms to slow decay or sudden death and to eternal oblivion all that is great, good and beautiful in this world.

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Playing Oblivion is like taking part in an interactive movie.

He steadied himself with his hands on his knees for a moment, panting; then opened a bottle and started to drink, fast; desperate to find oblivion.

If they had been no more than what the Illyrian pirates had been in the early history of Rome, or than the Arabic corsairs were at this time in southern Europe, the disappearance of the evil would have been quickly followed by its oblivion.

Science With the advance made in Greek studies scholastic methods of thinking fell into contemptuous oblivion.

One of John's last acts was his decision to separate Italy from the Empire, but this bull was of no avail and fell into oblivion.

They are in reality a collection of stiff and formal essays which have long ago fallen into merited oblivion.

On the fall of Napoleon, Barere played the part of royalist, but on the final restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 he was banished for life from France as a regicide, and then withdrew to Brussels and temporary oblivion.

The bicycle built up speed and Dean was aware that only one square inch of brake pad separated him from oblivion.

Even the other cenobites have been shafted into oblivion with him.

The new records link to Out of Oblivion, a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Again like The Full Monty, Wondrous Oblivion weaves a number of darker, more interesting subplots around a fairly hackneyed central storyline.

If the Tories do not grasp this particular nettle then they will slide into oblivion like The Whigs before them.

Anyway, the sheep, like Dyer, look to be seeking oblivion.

We were anchored at the foot of the division facing oblivion.

Only recently, most of the pages at the Voices Forum website had to be " mended " to avoid search engine oblivion!

At last, overwhelmed by the agony, she passed into the blessed oblivion of unconsciousness.

Imagine my relief as the anesthetic finally brought merciful oblivion.

Remember six months ago when the club was staring oblivion in the face?

The sixth age shifts and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Here he lived to a ripe old age suffering the classic fate of a surviving unsuccessful revolutionary - almost total oblivion.

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In human beings, gratitude quickly transmutes to oblivion or resentment.

His discovery was not, however, made known until 1792, when Dalrymple rescued his name from oblivion, bestowing it upon the passage which separates New Guinea from Australia.

Apparently some early archetype had been divided into two volumes, of which only the first (containing eight plays, Amphitruo - Epidicus) had escaped oblivion or destruction.

Bradley had employed a similar arrangement which seems to have passed into oblivion (New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, 1710).

As the result, no less than 8000 lunar observations were rescued from oblivion, and were, 1846, placed at the disposal of astronomers in such a form that they could be used directly for comparison with the theory and for the improvement of the tables of the moon's motion.