Usually means: Destroys completely; wipes out existence.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word obliterates:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. obliterates: Merriam-Webster
  2. obliterates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. obliterates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Obliterates, obliterates: Wordnik
  5. obliterates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. obliterates: Wiktionary
  7. obliterates: Dictionary.com
  8. obliterates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. obliterates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obliterates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. obliterates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. obliterates: Medical dictionary

(Note: See obliterate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (obliterate)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
verb:  To hide (something) by covering it; to conceal, to obscure.
verb:  (also figuratively) To make (a drawing, text which is printed or written, etc.) indecipherable, either by erasing or obscuring it; to blot out, to efface, to delete.
verb:  (biology, pathology, surgery, chiefly passive voice) To impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue).
verb:  (philately) To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot be reused.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace.
verb:  (biology, pathology) Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction.
adjective:  (except poetic) Completely destroyed or erased; effaced, obliterated.
adjective:  (entomology, rare) Of markings on an insect: difficult to distinguish from the background; faint, indistinct.
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