Obliterate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Scarcely distinct;

— applied to the markings of insects.

II. Obliterate ·vt To erase or blot out; to Efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

III. Obliterate ·vt To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.