Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To blot out; to cause to disappear; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing. 2. (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. 3. (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

Multi-Version Concordance Obliterate (1 Occurrence) Deuteronomy 12:3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. (See NAS)