EnglishMain Dictionary
oblivion
Universal Words
noun [U]
1 a state in which you are not aware of what is happening around you, usually because you are unconscious or asleep:
He often drinks himself into oblivion. * Sam longed for the oblivion of sleep.
2 the state in which sb/sth has been forgotten and is no longer famous or important:
An unexpected victory saved him from political oblivion. * Most of his inventions have been consigned to oblivion.
3 a state in which sth has been completely destroyed:
Hundreds of homes were bombed into oblivion during the first weeks of the war.
