1.  obliterate(v = verb.change) kill, wipe out - mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
is one way to take away, take out
Derived forms adjective obliterable₁, noun obliteration₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  obliterate(v = verb.change) blot out, hide, obscure, veil - make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form adjective obliterable₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

3.  obliterate(v = verb.change) efface - remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
is one way to blur, dim, slur
Derived forms noun obliteration₁, noun obliteration₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4.  obliterate(v = verb.change) - do away with completely, without leaving a trace;
is one way to do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of
Derived forms adjective obliterable₁, noun obliteration₁, noun obliteration₂, noun obliterator₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

   obliterate(s = adj.all) blotted out, obliterated - reduced to nothingness;

1.  To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated." [1913 Webster]

   Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects. [1913 Webster]

obliterate, v.tr.
1 a blot out; efface, erase, destroy. b leave no clear traces of.
2 deface (a postage stamp etc.) to prevent further use.

Derivative:
obliteration n. obliterative adj. obliterator n.

Etymology:
L obliterare (as OB-, litera LETTER)

VB  not exist, have no existence, be null and void, cease to exist, pass away, perish, be extinct, become extinct, die out, disappear, melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind, go, be no more, die, annihilate, render null, nullify, abrogate, destroy, take away, remove, obliterate, extirpate.

VB  efface, obliterate, erase, raze, rase, expunge, cancel, blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out, wipe off, rub off, wipe away, deface, render illegible, draw the pen through, apply the sponge, be effaced, leave no trace, leave not a rack behind.