1.
[syn: blotted out, obliterate, obliterated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Obliterate \Ob*lit"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obliterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Obliterating.] [L. obliteratus, p. p. of
obliterare to obliterate; ob (see Ob-) + litera, littera,
letter. See Letter.]
1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable,
as a writing.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that
experience are slowly obliterated. --W. Black.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
obliterated \obliterated\ adj.
1. destroyed so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable or
imperceptible.
Syn: wiped out, obliterate.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. made illegible or imperceptible by erasing or abrading
away; -- of writing or surface designs on objects.
Syn: blotted out, obliterated.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
obliterated
adj 1: reduced to nothingness [syn: blotted out, obliterate,
obliterated]