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Synonyms of obliterate in English:

obliterate


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verb

1‘the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind’

SYNONYMS
erase, eradicate, expunge, efface, blot out, rub out, wipe out, remove all traces of, blank out, block out, delete, strike out, cancel, cross out, ink out, score out

2‘a nuclear explosion that would obliterate a city’

SYNONYMS
destroy, wipe out, annihilate, exterminate, extirpate, demolish, eliminate, eradicate, kill, decimate, liquidate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map
informal zap
ANTONYMS

create, establish