absolve, blot, consign to oblivion, dele, efface, erase, extirpate, nullify, rule out, sponge, strike out
Definitionadj. reduced to nothingness
Last update: July 2, 2016
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The super cyclone obliterated the Orissa coastline. [verb]
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The smog obliterates the sunrise. [verb]
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As they walked back down the dune, she dragged her hand in a wavy line, trying to obliterate their tracks. [verb]
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Elsewhere local surface currents are developed, either drifts due to the direct action of the winds, or streams produced by wind action heaping water up against the land; but these nowhere rise to the dignity of a distinct current system, although they are often sufficient to obliterate the feeble tidal action characteristic of the Mediterranean. [verb]
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In a moment every frightful or offensive mark was obliterated, and the youth appeared again in the lineaments with which he had been gifted by nature. [verb]
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Electric bells, too, are wanting, and there is still found the row of jangling _grelots_, their numbers half-obliterated, hanging above the great doorway leading to the courtyard. [verb]
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The business of the day was interesting enough to obliterate all considerations of yesterday. [verb]
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It is one of those many relics of old times, which no amount of outward change has been able to obliterate. [verb]
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Nothing is so lost to the infinite soul as to be wholly and totally obliterated. [verb]
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Mr Bloom, without evincing surprise, unostentatiously turned over the card to peruse the partially obliterated address and postmark. [verb]
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