oblivion

oubli, anéantissement

État de ce qui est totalement oublié ou détruit sans laisser de trace.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : fade into oblivion (His early novels faded into oblivion.); consign someone/something to oblivion (The new technology consigned the old machines to oblivion.)

Synonymes : obscurity, extinction

Expressions courantes : fade into oblivion, consign to oblivion, bomb into oblivion

inconscience, oubli

État où on ne perçoit plus ce qui se passe ou on ne se souvient de rien.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : into oblivion (Exhausted, she sank into oblivion.)

Synonymes : unconsciousness, unawareness

Contraires : awareness

Expressions courantes : drink into oblivion, sink into oblivion, peaceful oblivion

purgatoire

État où les âmes attendent ou se purifient après la mort avant de rejoindre le paradis.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : purgatory

Expressions courantes : souls in oblivion, realm of oblivion

effacer, anéantir

Effacer ou détruire entièrement quelque chose sans laisser de trace qui en rappelle le souvenir.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : erase, obliterate, efface

Contraires : preserve

Expressions courantes : oblivion the past, oblivion something