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Ob`lit´er`ate
v. t.1.To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
[imp. & p. p. Obliterated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Obliterating.]
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.
a.1.(Zool.) Scarcely distinct; - applied to the markings of insects.
Verb1.obliterate - mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
Synonyms: wipe out, kill
2.obliterate - make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
Synonyms: blot out, veil, hide, obscure
3.obliterate - remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
Synonyms: efface
4.obliterate - do away with completely, without leaving a trace
Adj.1.obliterate - reduced to nothingness
absolve, black out, blot, blot out, cancel, consign to oblivion, cross out, declare a moratorium, dele, delete, efface, eliminate, erase, expunge, extirpate, forgive, kill, nullify, rub out, rule out, scratch, scratch out, sponge, sponge out, strike off, strike out, write off

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