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1. To destroy all traces of: abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill¹, liquidate, remove, root¹ (out or up), rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out. Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See help/harm/harmless, make/unmake.
2. To remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean: annul, blot (out), cancel, cross (off or out), delete, efface, erase, expunge, rub (out), scratch (out), strike (out), undo, wipe (out), x (out). Law vacate. See continue/stop/pause.

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Definition: destroy
Antonyms: build, construct, create

IN BRIEF: To make disappear completely.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. — Anais Nin (1903-1977), American-French writer, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. III, 1969, January 1944.

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Complete removal, by disease, degeneration, surgical procedure, irradiation, etc.

For a list of words related to obliterate, see:

• Violent Actions - obliterate: destroy completely, erase; expunge

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - udslette, tilintetgøre

Nederlands (Dutch)
uitwissen, doorhalen, vernietigen

Français (French)
v. tr. - effacer, masquer (la vue), effacer de (la mémoire), oblitérer (un timbre)

Deutsch (German)
v. - auslöschen, vernichten, entwerten

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - εξαλείφω, καταστρέφω ολοσχερώς, σβήνω, (για χαρτόσημο κ.λπ.) ακυρώνω

Italiano (Italian)
obliterare, annientare, annullare, asportare, rimuovere

Português (Portuguese)
v. - obliterar

Русский (Russian)
стирать, уничтожать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - borrar, tachar, destruir, arrasar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - utplåna, stryka ut, avlägsna, tillintetgöra, makulera, stämpla(frimärken)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
涂去, 删除, 擦去

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 塗去, 刪除, 擦去

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 흔적을 없애다, 문자를 지우다, 기억을 지우다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 抹消する, 痕跡をなくす, 削除する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يمحو, يطمس‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮מחק, השמיד, לא השאיר עקבות, השחית (בול דואר וכד') למנוע שימוש נוסף‬

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