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obliterate

verb abolere, abolish, annihilate, annul, blot out, bring to nothing, cancel, conceal, consume, cover, cover up, defeat, delere, delete, demolish, deracinate, destroy, devastate, devour, disintegrate, dispel, dissolve, efface, eliminate, erase, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, gut, invalidate, level, liquidate, mask, mow down, nullify, obscure, omit, pull up by the roots, quash, quell, ravage, raze, remove, remove the traces, render illegible, render imperceptible, rub off, rub out, ruin, rule out, scratch out, screen, shroud, smash, snuff out, squash, stamp out, strike out, suppress, swallow up, sweep away, tear down, topple, unmake, wipe out, wreck, write off

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The analysis revealed a string of dark spots below the neck, possibly a necklace that the artist eventually decided to obliterate before he was satisfied with his work.

Unmasking a 'Mona Lisa' coverup

culture and its effort to obliterate everything German.

"The Romantic Spirit in German Art: 1790-1990." (Hayward Gallery, London, England)

From a phenomenological point of view, the imagination has its limits, yet it's those very limits that Holzer most wants to test and perhaps to obliterate, but definitely to know from the "other side.

Jenny Holzer

But in Une Petite Etude (A little study, 1992) Nelson's all-or-nothing approach threatens to obliterate an otherwise intriguing use of space.

Dona Nelson

Often, her objects are entirely covered with phallic shapes made of cloth, and the accumulation of these shapes in an undifferentiated mass merges with the surrounding space to obliterate the surface.

Jessica Diamond

A good hosing from a maintenance man or a downpour from Mother Nature quickly obliterates whatever the message, be it carefully crafted or impulsively inscribed.