Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Obliteration (Suppression of sign)

Nouns
  • obliteration
  • erasure, rasure
  • cancel, cancellation
  • circumduction
  • deletion, blot
  • effacement, extinction.
Verbs
  • 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 etc.
  • leave no trace etc. Indication
  • leave not a rack behind"
Adjectives
  • obliterated etc. v.
  • out of print
  • printless
  • leaving no trace
  • intestate
  • unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
Int
  • dele
  • out with it!