obliterate

obliterate
    adj 1: reduced to nothingness [syn: {blotted out}, {obliterate},
           {obliterated}]
    v 1: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in
         the President's speech" [syn: {kill}, {obliterate}, {wipe
         out}]
    2: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or
       concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn:
       {obscure}, {blot out}, {obliterate}, {veil}, {hide}]
    3: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the
       memory of the time in the camps" [syn: {obliterate},
       {efface}]
    4: do away with completely, without leaving a trace
    

Obliterate \Ob*lit"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obliterated};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Obliterating}.] [L. obliteratus, p. p. of
   obliterare to obliterate; ob (see {Ob-}) + litera, littera,
   letter. See {Letter}.]
   1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable,
      as a writing.
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   2. To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to
      render imperceptible; as, to obliterate ideas; to
      obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
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            The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that
            experience are slowly obliterated.    --W. Black.
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Obliterate \Ob*lit"er*ate\, a. (Zool.)
   Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
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33 Moby Thesaurus words for "obliterate":
      absolve, annihilate, black out, blot, blot out, cancel,
      consign to oblivion, cross out, declare a moratorium, dele, delete,
      destroy, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate,
      extirpate, forgive, kill, nullify, raze, rub out, rule out,
      scratch, scratch out, sponge, sponge out, strike off, strike out,
      wipe out, write off