English-German translations for oblivion

• vergessen
  Erstens erwachsen Intoleranz und Extremismus aus dem Vergessen der Vergangenheit. In the first place, intolerance and extremism come from the oblivion of the past.
  Ein Heroinabhängiger beispielsweise sucht oftmals das Vergessen, kann sein Leben nicht meistern. A heroin addict, for example, often seeks oblivion, being unable to cope with life.
  Sollen diese außergewöhnlichen und langwierigen politischen und kulturellen Anstrengungen dem Vergessen anheim gestellt werden? Is that extraordinary, prolonged political and cultural effort destined to end up in oblivion?
• Vergessen das
  Erstens erwachsen Intoleranz und Extremismus aus dem Vergessen der Vergangenheit. In the first place, intolerance and extremism come from the oblivion of the past.
  Ein Heroinabhängiger beispielsweise sucht oftmals das Vergessen, kann sein Leben nicht meistern. A heroin addict, for example, often seeks oblivion, being unable to cope with life.
  Sollen diese außergewöhnlichen und langwierigen politischen und kulturellen Anstrengungen dem Vergessen anheim gestellt werden? Is that extraordinary, prolonged political and cultural effort destined to end up in oblivion?
• Vergessenheit die
  Ich habe das Gefühl, das Land gerät langsam in Vergessenheit. I have the feeling that that country is gradually being relegated to oblivion.
  Sie sind zu interessant, um einfach so in Vergessenheit zu geraten. They will be too interesting to be left in the cold and powerful hands of oblivion.
  Diese Werte dürfen nicht unter dem Vorwand der Stabilisierung unserer Beziehungen in Vergessenheit geraten. These values cannot be allowed to sink into oblivion on the pretext of stabilising our relations.

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