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1 the complete and intentional obliteration of a will or any part of it:
eradication, erasing, erasure, effacing, rubbing out, blotting out, wiping out, removal, expunging, effacement, blanking out, blocking out, deletion, striking out, cancellation, crossing out, inking out, scoring out;
rare expunction, expungement.
2 pressure from environmentalists has saved one of the country's national parks from obliteration:
destruction, wiping out, annihilation, extermination, extirpation, elimination, eradication, killing, decimation, liquidation, demolition;
informal zapping.
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