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v. To do away with completely so as to leave no trace. See Synonyms at abolish.

v. To wipe out, rub off, or erase (writing or other markings).

v. Medicine To remove completely (a body organ or part), as by surgery, disease, or radiation.

v. To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.

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

v. To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible.

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

To blot or render undecipherable; blot out; erase; efface; remove all traces of.

Synonyms Erase, Expunge, etc. (see efface), rub out, rub off, wipe out, remove.

In entomology, almost effaced; obsolete or very indistinct, as the surface-markings of an insect.

adj. reduced to nothingness

v. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

v. remove completely from recognition or memory

v. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

v. do away with completely, without leaving a trace

"When CNN's Rick Sanchez had a panel discussion on Hillary's "obliterate Iran" comment, he rhetorically asked words to the effect "well, 'obliterate' is just a word ... what she meant was we would deal with Iran harshly ... so what's wrong with that?""

destroyed   

obliterated    obliterates    obliterating   

take out    take away    dim    slur    blur    extinguish    do away with    get rid of    eliminate   

spots    obliterate processes    duct   

obliterated    obliterating   

efface    cancel    annihilate    delete    destroy   

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