verbs
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
"kill these lines in the President's speech"
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
"a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
remove completely from recognition or memory
"efface the memory of the time in the camps"
do away with completely, without leaving a trace
is a type of (narrower)
terminate, end, or take out
"Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"