Difference between Obliterate and Annihilate

OBLITERATE vs ANNIHILATE: ADJECTIVE

To destroy completely.
To reduce to nonexistence.
To defeat decisively.
To convert (a subatomic particle) to energy or high-energy particles by annihilation.
To participate in annihilation. Used of particles and antiparticles.
To be completely destructive.

To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
To remove completely (a body organ or part), as by surgery, disease, or radiation.
To remove or destroy completely so as to leave no trace. : annihilate.
To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible.
To render invisible or unreadable, as by erasing or marking over.

To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of.

In entomology, almost effaced; obsolete or very indistinct, as the surface-markings of an insect.
To blot or render undecipherable; blot out; erase; efface; remove all traces of.
Synonyms Erase, Expunge, etc. (see efface), rub out, rub off, wipe out, remove.

To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists: as, to annihilate a forest by cutting and carrying away the trees; to annihilate an army; to annihilate a house by demolishing the structure; also, to destroy or eradicate, as a property or an attribute of a thing.
To reduce to nothing; deprive of existence; cause to cease to be.
Annihilated.

Eliminate, Shatter, Erase, Annihilate, Destroy, Blot out, Blotted out, Wipe out, Obscure, Extinguish, Hide, Destroyed, Kill, Efface, Wipe

Clobber, Wipe, Overwhelm, Crush, Slay, Kill, Obliterate, Exterminate, Destroy, Carry off, Wipe out, Extinguish, Eliminate, Eradicate, Decimate

Eliminate, Shatter, Erase, Annihilate, Destroy, Blotted out, Blot out, Wipe out, Obscure, Extinguish, Hide, Destroyed, Kill, Efface, Wipe

Clobber, Wipe, Overwhelm, Crush, Slay, Kill, Obliterate, Exterminate, Destroy, Carry off, Wipe out, Extinguish, Eliminate, Eradicate, Decimate

Rain candistort or obliterate the images in your mirrors.
He was in no way trying to obliterate Japan.
Play: Obliterate an enemy with less Health than me.
She can just obliterate anyone who comes at us.
This distinction he proposed to obliterate by his measure.
Church that we must not obliterate or forget.
Increase if you can easily obliterate a rift.
NRA, and entirely obliterate our great Second Amendment.
Erase, obliterate; lay level With the ground, demolish.
It does not contemplate that we can obliterate the railway any more than we can obliterate the highway.