Obliterate /(?)/

Ob·lit·er·ate

Obliterate

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Obliterated; p. pr. & vb. n. Obliterating

  1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
  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.
    The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated.
    — W. Black.

Obliterate

a.
  1. Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects. (Zool.)