It's the word of the day for September 29th.
Today's word is obliterate, spelled O-B-L-I-T-E-R-A-T-E.
Obliterate is a verb.
To obliterate something is to destroy it completely so that nothing is left,
to destroy utterly all trace indication or significance of it.
It can also mean to remove utterly from recognition or memory.
Here's the word used in a sentence from lithub.com.
A day or two after the fire,
I happened to be passing when the demolition crew got around to clearing away the debris.
Most of the books were singed but readable,
with titles outlined in charcoal and price conveniently obliterated.
They cost nothing more than the effort to dig them out.
The word obliterate has been preserved in our language for centuries, and that's not nothing.
The earliest evidence in our files traces obliterate back to the mid-16th century as a word
for removing something from memory.
Soon after,
English speakers began to use it for the specific act of blotting out or obscuring anything written,
and eventually its meaning was generalized to removing anything from existence.
In the meantime,
physicians began using obliterate for the surgical act of filling or closing up a vessel cavity or passage with tissue,