| verb | mark for deletion, rub off, or erase “kill these lines in the President's speech” |
| verb | make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing “a hidden message” |
| verb | remove completely from recognition or memory “efface the memory of the time in the camps” |
| verb | do away with completely, without leaving a trace |
| adjective | reduced to nothingness |
| obliterable | adjective | able to be obliterated completely |
| obliteration | noun | the complete destruction of every trace of something |
| wipeout | noun | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |
| hiding | noun | the activity of keeping something secret |
| obliterator | noun | an eliminator that does away with all traces |