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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oblivion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
consign
▪ Their works have disappeared as a result, and there are many more interesting things that have been consigned to oblivion.
▪ This city forgets the good with the bad; all are consigned to the same oblivion.
▪ If the achievements of the Thatcher years were not to be consigned to oblivion, then a tactical retreat was necessary.
pass
▪ A much more flexible and pro-active strategy was needed, unless Labour was to pass into total oblivion.
▪ Many of her thoughts pass into oblivion, while the occasional thought comes true to life.
sink
▪ Curling up beneath the window she sank into gorgeous oblivion.
▪ So should we let them sink into oblivion and folklore?
▪ Its decrees sank immediately into oblivion.
▪ Anton Flettner's way of extracting power from the wind presents too many advantages to sink into oblivion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ CDs continue to push vinyl records toward oblivion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few hours of oblivion probably, but failing that, Faber.
▪ A much more flexible and pro-active strategy was needed, unless Labour was to pass into total oblivion.
▪ And by the end of the war, the issue had fallen into oblivion.
▪ Death and oblivion were down there, waiting for the movie to be over.
▪ It loomed over the Angara River like a great rectangular tombstone, moldering toward oblivion in stunning disrepair.
▪ The provisions of the Reconstruction amendments to the Constitution and various related statutes were relegated to oblivion.
▪ They were not dropped into the oblivion of the Gulag archipelago or the Lubianka.
▪ This city forgets the good with the bad; all are consigned to the same oblivion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oblivion

Oblivion \Ob*liv"i*on\, n. [L. oblivio, akin to oblivisci to forget: cf. OF. oblivion.]

  1. The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.

    Second childishness and mere oblivion.
    --Shak.

    Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
    --Dryden

    The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion.
    --W. Irving.

  2. Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.
    --Sir J. Davies.

    Syn: See Forgetfulness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oblivion

late 14c., "state or fact of forgetting," from Old French oblivion (13c.) and directly from Latin oblivionem (nominative oblivio) "forgetfulness; a being forgotten," from oblivisci (past participle oblitus) "forget," originally "even out, smooth over, efface," from ob "over" (see ob-) + root of levis "smooth," from PIE *lei-w-, from root *(s)lei- "slime, slimy, sticky" (see slime (n.)). Meaning "state of being forgotten" is early 15c.

Wiktionary
oblivion

n. 1 The state of forgetfulness or distraction; fig. confused 2 The state of being completely forgotten. 3 A state of permanent unconsciousness existing after death; A state of nonexistence or nothingness 4 (context figuratively English) a wasteland; a supernatural realm of waste, like hell vb. (cx transitive English) To consign to oblivion; to efface utterly.

WordNet
oblivion
  1. n. the state of being disregarded or forgotten [syn: limbo]

  2. total forgetfulness; "he sought the great oblivion of sleep" [syn: obliviousness]

Wikipedia
Oblivion

Oblivion may refer to:

Oblivion (Orphanage album)

Oblivion is Orphanage's first album, released in March 1995 by DSFA Records. The CD features 10 tracks that have been recorded, mixed and mastered at Tape Productions Studio in Raamsdonkveer.

Oblivion (roller coaster)

Oblivion is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in England. The ride opened as the world's first dive coaster on 14 March 1998, amidst a large publicity campaign. It was the second in a long line of 'Secret Weapon (SW4)' rollercoasters to have opened at Alton Towers. The ride has a height restriction of . With a maximum speed of 68 mph, it is the third fastest roller coaster in the UK, behind Stealth at Thorpe Park and the Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

Oblivion (band)

Oblivion was a punk rock group from the Chicago area. The band was composed of Pete Kourim on bass guitar and lead vocals, Scott Ozark on guitar and back-up vocals, and Brian Czarnik on drums.

Oblivion (Stone novel)

Oblivion is an original novel by Dave Stone featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Oblivion (comics)

Oblivion is a character in the Marvel Comics universe. Its first appearance was in Iceman #3 and it was created by J. M. DeMatteis and Alan Kupperberg. Oblivion is a cosmic entity and another aspect of Death. Oblivion represents non-existence and is a counterforce to the expanding universe.

Oblivion (Hastang song)

"Oblivion" is a song by the Cebuano rock band Hastang. The song's lyrics was written by Julie Ann Ladanan (née Redoble), with the melody and music written by lead singer Tessa Manto and bass player Guile Canencia. The musical arrangement of the song is credited to Hastang.

Oblivion (Utopia album)

Oblivion is an album by the rock group Utopia, released in 1984.

Oblivion (Mastodon song)

Oblivion is the second single from Crack the Skye by American progressive metal band Mastodon. It is their second-most successful single and song since the release of their full length Crack the Skye, reaching #30 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart; however, it has since been surpassed by " Curl of the Burl," which peaked at #16. It is the opening track on the band's live album Live At The Aragon.

Oblivion (1994 film)

Oblivion is a 1994 American western- science fiction dark comedy film directed by Sam Irvin and written by Peter David. It stars Richard Joseph Paul, Andrew Divoff, George Takei, Julie Newmar, Musetta Vander, Isaac Hayes and Meg Foster. It was followed by a sequel, Oblivion 2: Backlash.

Oblivion (metal band)

Oblivion is an American technical death metal band from the Bay Area formed in 2007. They have released one album, one demo and several music videos. Members of Oblivion have previously performed in several notable metal bands such as Antagony, All Shall Perish, Hacksaw to the Throat, Alchemicon, Feast and Fractals. Another notable aspect of Oblivion is the fact that one member has a doctorate degree in music and is a university professor, while another has a doctorate in mathematics. Currently, the band is signed to Unique Leader and will release multiple albums through the label. A reissue of their debut album, "Called to Rise", will be released on October 15, 2013.

Oblivion (2013 film)

Oblivion is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on Joseph Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name. The film was co-written, produced and directed by Kosinski. It stars Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, and Olga Kurylenko. The film was released in the U.S. on April 19, 2013. According to Kosinski, Oblivion pays homage to science fiction films of the 1970s.

Oblivion received mixed reviews. The acting, especially Cruise's performance, the originality, the visual style and effects were praised, while reception of the plot was mixed. Reviewers criticized the film's incorporation of elements from other sci-fi films and what Rotten Tomatoes called a "thinly scripted" story. However, it was a commercial success, grossing more than $286 million worldwide against a $120 million budget.

Oblivion (Kaliopi album)

Oblivion is the first duet album by the Macedonian singer Kaliopi with Edin Karamazov, recorded and released in 2009.

Oblivion (Grimes song)

"Oblivion" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Grimes from her third studio album, Visions (2012). It was released as a promotional single in 2012 by 4AD. The song is one of Grimes' most successful releases so far and was ranked at number 38 on Australian alternative music station Triple J's 2012 Hottest 100 countdown. It was named the best song of 2012 on Pitchfork, which in 2014 also named it the best song of the decade as of August 2014. It placed at number 229 on NME magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Oblivion (M83 song)

"Oblivion" is a single by French band M83 featuring lead vocals from Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfør. It was released as part of the film soundtrack album Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to accompany the film of the same name. It was composed by Anthony Gonzalez.

Oblivion (Biff Bang Pow! album)

Oblivion is the third album by London indie pop band Biff Bang Pow! released in 1987.

Oblivion (Power of Five)

Oblivion is the final book in The Power of Five series. It marks a change in the narrative, being set in the future - 2018 is the affirmed setting. It is ten years on from the other four books in the series and the world is in dark times. The Old Ones have started their war and the Five have to find each other again.

This book was started in 2009 and was finished in 2012. This book is unique because it isn't a rewrite of a previous Pentagram novel.

Oblivion (Bastille song)

"Oblivion" is a song by British band Bastille from their 2013 album Bad Blood. It was released digitally in the UK on 5 September 2014 as the eighth overall and final single from the album. A limited edition 7-inch vinyl edition of the single, featuring the previously unreleased track " bad_news" as the B-side, was also released on 8 September.

The song was featured on an episode of the television series The Vampire Diaries in 2012.

Usage examples of "oblivion".

It is another key discovery that the old seers made, but in their aberration they relegated it to oblivion until it was rescued by the new seers.

Oblivion was close enough within his reach as he sat there, the aquarium on his lap.

Back in the auberge, I had imagined many possible derangements of the Pliocene world, fierce beasts, inhospitable terrain, exploitation of newcomers by the earlier arrivals among the time-farers, even a malfunction of the translational field that would cast the poor travelers into oblivion.

As he handed his briefcase the phone, the bureaucrat could hear the last of his agent unraveling itself back into oblivion.

Elto caught a few words about a sleeping princess, a hidden and magical city, a lost hero from the Butlerian Jihad who would slumber in oblivion until he rose again to save the Imperium.

Park of Extinct Animals was breached and many of the inner enclosures were opened, releasing into the wilderness nearly the entire extraordinary collection of carefully cloned beasts of yesteryear: moas, quaggas, giant ground sloths, dodos, passenger pigeons, aurochs, oryxes, saber-toothed cats, great auks, cahows and many another lost species that had been called back from oblivion by the most painstaking manipulation of fossil genetic material.

Every player has cheated death, surviving a killing dose of venom to balance on the edge of oblivion, returning with the magic puntas possess.

She put on her clothes in seeming oblivion that I was a man, but without shewing any sights that could be called indecent.

Beatrice did not need any bidding and after Frans had covered her with a rug, she allowed herself bar to sink into the strange silence that preluded the eird feelings which led to oblivion.

Likely they would slowly descend in a spiral orbit until they reached the singularity and oblivion, but here, near the top of the ergosphere, there was still a chance.

Soldier Handler dropped him five times in four rounds, and then stopped a right-hander that knocked him clear out of the ring and into fistic oblivion.

One hand raised, Judge Lawless was about to fling it sideward as a signal for the firing squad to blast Fleech into oblivion.

And when the first frump blast exploded a glass counter full of jewelry to oblivion, the place became a madhouse of screaming, writhing insanity.

Leopold and Loeb, Capone and Dillinger, Gacy and Gein, Speck and Bundy, and the rest of the parolees from oblivion strolled away, a swaggering gait, leaving the cornfield, hitting the dark road that passed outside the farm, a short walk that would take them into the heart of a town called Plum Creek.

Hess, Herder, Paulus, Schleiermacher, Hase, Neander, Ebrard, Weisse, Ewald, Keim, and Renan must be content to lie in oblivion.