Israel has destroyed 80% of the ones they have found, and needs only a few days to obliterate the rest.
Destroy them God, obliterate them from the face of the earth.
He promised to obliterate Obamacare “and replace it with real reform.”
Yet to destroy the precious book would be to obliterate centuries of information about the Ma family line.
It would be vain for him to try to obliterate the traces of his priesthood.
Could he but obliterate as completely the dread reckoning of another world!
I should turn my ray upon you and obliterate you immediately.
Was he, at last, ashamed, and trying to obliterate the memory of his jealousy?
He moved toward it very carefully, in order not to obliterate any footprints.
A thousand years have no power to obliterate the difference.
c.1600, from Latin obliteratus, past participle of obliterare "cause to disappear, blot out, erase, efface," figuratively "cause to be forgotten," from ob "against" (see ob-) + littera (also litera) "letter, script" (see letter (n.)); abstracted from phrase literas scribere "write across letters, strike out letters." Related: Obliterated; obliterating.
obliterate o·blit·er·ate (ə-blĭt'ə-rāt', ō-blĭt'-)
v. o·blit·er·at·ed, o·blit·er·at·ing, o·blit·er·ates
To remove an organ or another body part completely, as by surgery, disease, or radiation.
To blot out, especially through filling of a natural space by fibrosis or inflammation.
