oblivion

olvido, destrucción

Estado de algo completamente olvidado o destruido sin dejar rastro.

En inglés sencillo: A state of being completely forgotten or destroyed, so that nothing remains.

• The once famous actor faded into oblivion.
• Bombs reduced the village to oblivion.
• Without written records, their stories might slip into oblivion.

Cómo se usa: fade into oblivion (His early novels faded into oblivion.); consign someone/something to oblivion (The new technology consigned the old machines to oblivion.)

Sinónimos: obscurity, extinction

Expresiones frecuentes: fade into oblivion, consign to oblivion, bomb into oblivion

inconsciencia, olvido

Estado en que no percibes lo que ocurre o no recuerdas nada.

En inglés sencillo: A state in which you are completely unaware of what is happening or remember nothing.

• Sleep brought a few hours of oblivion.
• He drank himself into oblivion after the argument.
• She welcomed the peaceful oblivion of deep sleep.

Cómo se usa: into oblivion (Exhausted, she sank into oblivion.)

Sinónimos: unconsciousness, unawareness

Antónimos: awareness

Expresiones frecuentes: drink into oblivion, sink into oblivion, peaceful oblivion

purgatorio

Estado en que las almas esperan o se purifican después de morir antes de entrar en el cielo.

En inglés sencillo: A state after death in which souls wait or are made ready for heaven.

• The tale places lost souls in oblivion.
• They believed oblivion was a stage before heaven.
• The poem describes spirits waiting in oblivion after death.

Sinónimos: purgatory

Expresiones frecuentes: souls in oblivion, realm of oblivion

borrar, aniquilar

Eliminar o destruir algo por completo sin dejar nada que permita recordarlo.

En inglés sencillo: To erase or destroy something completely, leaving nothing to remember it by.

• Time will oblivion these names.
• The ruler tried to oblivion every record of the rebellion.
• The poet imagined a sea that oblivioned all human traces.

Sinónimos: erase, obliterate, efface

Antónimos: preserve

Expresiones frecuentes: oblivion the past, oblivion something