0 past simple and past participle of obliterate
1 to remove all signs of something, either by destroying it or by covering it so that it cannot be seen:
The address is partially obliterated by the now-removed sealing wax once on the folded paper of the letter.
Except for the silhouette of the ears, the facial features are completely obliterated, and no traces of headgear are evident.
Later deformations obliterated and partly extinguished possible shear sense indicators so that the shear sense can hardly be determined.
The traditional distinction between rural and urban has, however, largely been obliterated by modern communications.
Decortication and decerebration obliterated felt-pain from the experiment, and represented the laboratory as a pain-free space.
That distinction cannot just be obliterated by the assumption that everything is explicable in evolutionary terms.
The original nappe geometry was obliterated by block tectonics.
The intercordal spaces are obliterated by leaflet tissue.
