Object

• distinction: And yet, the concerted drive of economic theory and commercial practice has been to obliterate the distinction.

• competition: The fearsome Ballmer and Gates twosome who run Microsoft have obliterated the competition as if their lives depended on it.

• anything: It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it.

Modifying Another Word

• entirely: Yet spirit worship has not been able to entirely obliterate the idea of God.

Subject

• construction: The Moot was in all probability a ditched enclosure which has then been largely obliterated by the construction of a Medieval fortification.

Adjective complement

• most: But to future generations we could be famous as the city which wilfully destroyed or obliterated most of our own heritage.

Modifying Another Word

• but: The Official Unionist lost 35 seats, nearly all to the DUP, while Baird's party was all but obliterated.

• completely: Beyond here the canal has been completely obliterated by open cast mining.

• virtually: End of the year ever invented in today virtually obliterated capacity increase over.

• almost: The great era of railroad mania almost obliterated the old Chapel of Salford.

• totally: At other points, for example by the Jet Gasoline Station, mud thrown up by passing traffic has totally obliterated the line.

Used with why or when

• what: The persistent rain and mist obliterated what would have been some impressive views of the Lakeland.

Preposition: in

• bombing: Ten people were obliterated in the bombing and children were left screaming over the mutilated bodies of their loved ones.

Preposition: from

• mind: How easily might the memory even of Jesus have been obliterated from the minds of his contemporaries?

Preposition: by

• development: Is so named because a spring once lay nearby until obliterated by modern development.

• construction: The Moot was in all probability a ditched enclosure which has then been largely obliterated by the construction of a Medieval fortification.