Difference between Obliterate and Efface

OBLITERATE vs EFFACE: ADJECTIVE

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

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible.
To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.

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.
In entomology, almost effaced; obsolete or very indistinct, as the surface-markings of an insect.

Synonyms Deface, Erase, Cancel, Expunge, Efface, Obliterate. To deface is to injure, impair, or mar to the eye, and so generally upon the surface: as, to deface a building. The other words agree in representing a blotting out or removal. To erase is to rub out or scratch out, so that the thing is destroyed, although the signs of it may remain: as, to erase a word in a letter. To cancel is to cross out, to deprive of force or validity. To expunge is to strike out; the word is now rarely used, except of the striking out of some record: as, to expunge from the journal a resolution of censure. To efface is to make a complete removal: as, his kindness effaced all memory of past neglect. Obliterate is more emphatic than efface, meaning to remove all sign or trace of.
To keep out of view or unobserved; make inconspicuous; cause to be unnoticed or not noticeable: used reflexively: as, to efface one's self in the midst of gaiety.
To erase or obliterate, as something inscribed or cut on a surface; destroy or render illegible; hence, to remove or destroy as if by erasing: as, to efface the letters on a monument; to efface a writing; to efface a false impression from a person's mind.

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

Extirpate, Expunge, Drop, Shutdown, Cancel, Clear, Delete, Eradicate, Annihilate, Score out, Rub out, Wipe off, Wipe, Erase, Obliterate

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

Elide, Transfigure, Ennoble, Extirpate, Expunge, Shutdown, Cancel, Clear, Delete, Eradicate, Annihilate, Wipe off, Wipe, Erase, Obliterate

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.

SYN: Abolish, destroy, bring_to_nought, uproot, eradicate, nullify, exterminate, end, extinguish, demolish, obliterate, efface.
To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.
To efface a careful uninjured with held, in septic and treatment management.
But the acceptance of evolution need not efface morality or purpose.
AMOXICILLIN was argumentative to efface most of the 72 PBO patients.
He is remembered and time cannot efface his name from earth.
Bad men it guards, and doth their ill efface.
These tumor cells almost completely efface the jejunal mucosa.
Long will it be ere these marks are efface.
Encrinus ruminations coefficients Chloris efface graciousnesses meningitophobia Amer.