Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

552. [Suppression of sign.] Obliteration — N. obliteration; erasure,

rasure†; cancel, cancellation; circumduction†; deletion, blot; tabula rasa [Lat.]; effacement, extinction. V. 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 &c 550; leave not a rack behind Adj. obliterated &c v.; out of print; printless†; leaving no trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten. Int. dele; out with it!, Phr. delenda est Carthago [Lat.] [Cato].