Definition of "obliterative" [ob•lit•er•a•tive]

• Tending or serving to obliterate. (adjective)

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• "But in some patients, that trifecta of assaults—obliterative chemotherapy, marrow replacement, and the attack on the tumor by foreign cells—could be fashioned into an exquisitely potent therapeutic weapon against cancer."
• "The bone marrow represented the frontier of toxicity, an unbreachable barrier that limited the capacity to deliver obliterative chemotherapy—the “red ceiling” as some oncologists called it."
• "The obliterative power of Pluto grows exponentially more powerful when it meets resistance."