| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (II) Communication of Ideas | | Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
| 1. Natural Means |
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| 552. [Suppression of Sign.] Obliteration. |
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| NOUN: | OBLITERATION, erasure, rasure [rare]; cancel, cancellation; circumduction [rare], deletion, blot; tabula rasa [L.]; effacement, extinction.
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| VERB: | EFFACE, obliterate, erase, rase [rare], expunge, cancel, dele; blot -, take -, rub -, scratch -, strike -, wipe -, wash -, sponge- out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, rule out, apply the sponge.
BE EFFACED &c.; leave no trace [See Indication]; “leave not a rack behind” [Tempest].
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| ADJECTIVE: | OBLITERATED &c. v.; leaving no trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten; printless, out of print.
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| INTERJECTION: | dele; out with it! |
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| QUOTATION: | Delenda est Carthago.—Cato |
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