Verb: obliterate u'bli-tu,reyt or ow'bli-tu,reyt
- Destroy completely, leaving no trace
"The flood obliterated all evidence of the ancient settlement";
- annihilate
- Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
"obliterate these lines in the President's speech";
- kill, wipe out
- Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
"The heavy fog obliterated the landscape";
- obscure, blot out, veil, hide
- Remove completely from recognition or memory
"obliterate the memory of the time in the camps";
- efface
- Reduced to nothingness
"The ancient city was obliterate after centuries of neglect and natural disasters";
- blotted out, obliterated
Derived forms: obliterated, obliterates, obliterating
See also: destroyed
Type of: alter, blur, change, dim, do away with, eliminate, extinguish, fish out [informal], get rid of, modify, slur, take out