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Definition of obliteration : The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.

Synonyms:

ruin, include, extinction, wastage, liquidation, disintegration, decimation, wreckage, havoc, demolishment, extermination, desolation, loss, demolition, help, make, expunction, devastation, extirpation, ruination, mincemeat

disavowal, neutralization, elimination, abnegation, destruction, extinguishment, cancellation, dissolution, disaffirmation, eradication, refutation, dismissal, repudiation, nullification, abolition, invalidation, disclamation, negation, abolishment, undoing, revocation, rejection, withdrawal, divorce, deletion, annulment, denial, retraction

censorship, annihilation, expurgation

blankness, forgetfulness, oblivion, erasure, amnesia

Usage examples:

• Another fact which should not be passed over, is that in the evolution of a large society out of a cluster of small ones, there is a gradual obliteration of the original lines of separation- a change to which, also, we may see analogies in living bodies. - "Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I", Herbert Spencer.
• The letters were illegible, perhaps, yet the symbol of obliteration was in that dust which the morrow would disperse. - "Mary Magdalen", Edgar Saltus.
• For Mrs. Bittacy, daughter of an evangelical clergy- man, was a self- sacrificing woman, who in most things found a happy duty in sharing her husband's joys and sorrows to the point of self- obliteration. - "The Man Whom the Trees Loved", Algernon Blackwood.