Obliterate - Destroy utterly; wipe out
But normalcy seems a distant memory across the hardest-hit region of Japan. NHK, citing police and disaster management officials, reported that 63,000 buildings had been damaged, more than 6,000 of them obliterated.
Source - http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/14/japan.disaster/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
Dictionary - http://www.google.com/dictionary?sl=en&tl=en&q=obliterated
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