obliteration

Roget category 552

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.1. Natural means

#552. [Suppression of sign.] Obliteration

noun

obliteration — erasure, rasure^† — cancel, cancellation — circumduction^† — deletion, blot — tabula rasa [Lat.] — effacement, extinction.

verb

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 &c. — leave no trace etc. 550 — leave not a rack behind"

adjective

obliterated etc. v. — out of print — printless^† — leaving no trace — intestate — unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.

interjection

dele — out with it!,

phrase

delenda est Carthago [Lat.] [Cato].

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