oblivion

plural oblivions

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

   He regularly drank himself into oblivion.

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   Only the oblivion of sleep can heal the greatest traumas.

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

   I will cast them into oblivion!

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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.

   They tried to bomb them into oblivion.

   Ordo Malleus Inquisitor: I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world, and consign a million souls to oblivion.

   2011, Relic Entertainment, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, scene: Exterminatus declared on Typhon Primaris

3. uncountableusuallyA form of purgatory.
4. obsoleteuncountableusuallyAmnesty.

present singular third person oblivions · participle present oblivioning · participle past oblivioned · past oblivioned

1. transitiveTo consign to oblivion; to efface utterly.