What is "obliterating"

Usage examples of "obliterating".

The geyser roared ferociously, shaking Karl’s bones and obliterating the impassioned shouts from the colonists.

He thought of fire, and began to extend himself, burning through the multiplicity’s simplistic protection, seeping through the neural strata like a wave of searing lava, obliterating anything in his path.

Smoke, flame, and spumes of superfine mud belched out, obliterating the carnage from view.

Broad circles of mud erupted into cyclones of beige foam as the shrapnel slashed down, obliterating the struggling figures.

The light around it turned a dazzling monochrome white, obliterating details.

He challenged Lancelot, backed him up to the trees at the eastern side of the glade with that sword, and then, with effortless, primeval strength, brought his mighty hammer swinging across in an obliterating blow.

That was another reason why this plain had been chosen: nowhere else could such obliterating numbers have been assembled to move freely without hindering each other.

Even here in Fionavar in the battles he’d fought, what had come upon him each time had been of the same order: a fiery, obliterating hatred that consumed all else within it.

And then, unbelieving, stupefied, she saw the glorious creature he rode, gift of the Goddess, shining, double-edged, begin to move forward into the maelstrom, straight toward the obliterating vastness of the Dragon of Maugrim.

The rain drove horizontally before the sudden gale, churning the swamp to froth and obliterating everything more than a few feet away.

If he succeeds in obliterating the Murgos, he's going to be camped on our southern doorstep with a lot of bored soldiers on his hands.

It was not only the threat of the calamity again, the sun god seeking me out in the darkness of my daytime slumber, or visiting me with obliterating fire in the full darkness of the night.

And these are the nations whose opinions we are asked to value, whose favor we are asked to court—these are the moral authorities to whom we must apologize for the noblest political system in history: ours—these are the judges whom we must placate by denying our system, dishonoring its record, and obliterating its name.

This is an example of the method by which today's anti-ideologists are obliterating the concept of rights.

Not as great as a psychic storm obliterating cymeks, but still respectable.