English-Dutch translations for oblivion

• vergeetachtigheid
• vergetelheid
  Er zijn dus twee opties: opnieuw onderhandelen of de vergetelheid. So there are two options: renegotiation or oblivion.
  Ik heb het gevoel dat dat land zo langzamerhand in de vergetelheid raakt. I have the feeling that that country is gradually being relegated to oblivion.
  In de eerste plaats: onverdraagzaamheid en extremisme ontstaan wanneer het verleden in vergetelheid raakt. In the first place, intolerance and extremism come from the oblivion of the past.

Definition of oblivion

• The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead
• The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, incl. through war and destruction. for an area like hell, a wasteland
• Amnesty
• To consign to oblivion; to efface utterly

Examples

• He regularly drank himself into oblivion.
• Only the oblivion of sleep can heal the greatest traumas.
• Due to modern technology, many more people and much more information will not slip into oblivion, contrary to what happened throughout history until now.
• They tried to bomb them into oblivion.
• I will cast them into oblivion!

Related words

• obligation
• oblige
• obligatory
• goblin
• oblique
• obliquity
• obliging
• obliged
• obliqueness