Definition of obliterate

• v. t. - To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
• v. t. - To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
• a. - Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.