OBLITERATE

v. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

2.
v.

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.

3.
a.

Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

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