oblivion

oblio, annientamento

Condizione di ciò che è completamente dimenticato o distrutto senza lasciare traccia.

In inglese semplice: 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.

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

Sinonimi: obscurity, extinction

Espressioni comuni: fade into oblivion, consign to oblivion, bomb into oblivion

incoscienza, oblio

Stato in cui non ci si accorge di ciò che succede o non si ricorda nulla.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: into oblivion (Exhausted, she sank into oblivion.)

Sinonimi: unconsciousness, unawareness

Contrari: awareness

Espressioni comuni: drink into oblivion, sink into oblivion, peaceful oblivion

purgatorio

Condizione in cui le anime aspettano o si purificano dopo la morte prima di entrare in paradiso.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: purgatory

Espressioni comuni: souls in oblivion, realm of oblivion

cancellare, annientare

Eliminare o distruggere del tutto qualcosa senza lasciare nulla che lo ricordi.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: erase, obliterate, efface

Contrari: preserve

Espressioni comuni: oblivion the past, oblivion something