Ob·lit·er·ate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obliterated p. pr. & vb. n. Obliterating.]
1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
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.
The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. --W. Black.
obliterating
adj : making undecipherable or imperceptible; "obliterating
mists"; "an obscurant bank of clouds" [syn: obscurant]