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Meanings of oblivion in English

Portuguese
esquecimento
Catalan
llims

The state of being disregarded or forgotten.

        esquecimento
        Portuguese
        esquecimento
        Spanish
        inconsciencia

        Total forgetfulness.

              esquecimento
              Usage of oblivion in English
              1
              In the short term, the result was commercial oblivion: the single sank.
              The Guardian
              2
              Life only in yearning; Death to crown realization; peace only in oblivion.
              Nelka / Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biograph...
              3
              Chemical weapon storehouses cannot simply be blasted into oblivion, experts have said.
              The Irish Times
              4
              The darkness closed over me again; and the interval of oblivion followed.
              Armadale
              5
              This is why they decline in popular favor and pass into oblivion.
              Success with Small Fruits
              6
              The laws of most of the Italian stocks are lost in oblivion.
              The History of Rome, Book I / The Period Anterior to the Aboliti...
              7
              Can I have no peace in death, no oblivion in the grave?
              A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future
              8
              I have been given life again after a long wait in oblivion.
              Shadow prowler
              9
              The next morning I eagerly began my rambles in search of oblivion.
              The Last Man
              10
              The real Charley Steele had been enveloped in oblivion for seven months.
              The Right of Way — Volume 02
              11
              As far as she was concerned, her life was sliding into oblivion.
              The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
              12
              Then his nerveless fingers relaxed their hold; and all passed into oblivion.
              The Man
              13
              He fortifies his health by exercise; I calm my cares by oblivion.
              Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)
              14
              After its Snooker Loopy peak years, the sport is sleepwalking towards oblivion.
              The Guardian
              15
              Once more he held sceptred sway over races long since in oblivion.
              AE in the Irish Theosophist
              16
              You don't want it sanitised, let alone breached and fined into oblivion.
              The Guardian
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              Translations for oblivion
              Portuguese
              esquecimento
              Catalan
              llims
              Oblivion through the time
              Oblivion across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              Ireland
              Common
              United States of America
              Common