Difference between Obliterate and Shatter

OBLITERATE vs SHATTER: NOUN

A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters.
One part of many into which anything is 'broken; a fragment: used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase to break or rend into shatters.
A fragment of anything shattered.
A scattering collection or spray of fragments.
A fragment or splinter.
A shattered or impaired state.

To damage seriously; disable.
To break into pieces; smash or burst.
To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. : break.
To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
To cause the destruction or ruin of; destroy.

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

To scatter about.
To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters
To disorder; to derange; to render unsound.

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.
To blot or render undecipherable; blot out; erase; efface; remove all traces of.

To scatter; disperse.
To break or rend in pieces, as by a single blow; rend, split, or rive into splinters, flinders, or fragments.
To break; disorder; derange; impair; destroy: as, shattered nerves; a constitution shattered by dissipation.
Synonyms Smash, etc. See dash.
Of cereals, to scatter the grain on account of overripeness.
Of soils, to fall into flakes or meal-like particles from the action of the weather instead of harsh angular particles as when broken by implements.
To scatter; fly apart; be broken or rent into fragments.

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

Fail, Sever, Burst, Subvert, Clobber, Annihilate, Shake, Crush, Disrupt, Breaking, Break, Undermine, Destroy, Smash, Obliterate

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

Wreck, Sever, Burst, Subvert, Clobber, Annihilate, Shake, Crush, Disrupt, Breaking, Break, Undermine, Destroy, Smash, 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.