Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Obliterate has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
"kill these lines in the President's speech"
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
"a hidden message"
"a veiled threat"
remove completely from recognition or memory
"efface the memory of the time in the camps"
do away with completely, without leaving a trace
To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.
reduced to nothingness