Meaning of oblivion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.
   uncountable, usually
2. The 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.
   uncountable, usually
3. forgetting, ending of memory
4. A form of purgatory.
   uncountable, usually
5. idea meaning an abstract place to put what is wanted to be forgotten, as in the collocation consign to oblivion
6. Amnesty.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually
7. first-person singular present indicative of olvidar

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Examples

“He regularly drank himself into oblivion.”

“Only the oblivion of sleep can heal the greatest traumas.”

“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.”

“I will cast them into oblivion!”

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