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[ ih-reys ] SHOW IPA
/ ɪˈreɪs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used with object), e·rased, e·ras·ing. to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
to eliminate completely: She couldn't erase the tragic scene from her memory.
to obliterate (material recorded on magnetic tape or a magnetic disk): She erased the message.
to obliterate recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk): He accidentally erased the tape.
Computers . to remove (data) from computer storage.
to exclude, replace, or refuse to recognize (the identity, experience, or contribution of a minority group or group member):Framing rape as a woman’s issue erases men’s accounts of sexual violence from public discourse. See also whitewash (def. 7b).
Slang . to murder: The gang had to erase him before he informed on them.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used without object), e·rased, e·ras·ing. to give way to effacement readily or easily.
to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something.
Origin of erase First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin ērāsus (past participle of ērādere ), equivalent to ē- e-1 + rāsus “scraped”; see raze
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synonym study for erase 1 . See cancel.
OTHER WORDS FROM erase e·ras·a·bil·i·ty, noun e·ras·a·ble, adjective half-e·rased, adjective non·e·ras·a·ble, adjective
un·e·ras·a·ble, adjective un·e·rased, adjective un·e·ras·ing, adjective
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WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH erase erasable , irascibleWords nearby erase er, era, eradiate, eradicable, eradicate, erase , eraser, erasing head, erasion, Erasistratus, Erasmian
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Example sentences from the Web for erase Do as Tumblr has done and scrub her last words off the Internet—erase everything she wanted the world to hear.
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Is this a mature expression of understandable judgment, or a bid to erase history while conflating fiction and reality?
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Its militants say explicitly they are out to erase the borders that Sykes-Picot established across most of the modern Middle East.
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Later, she told a local reporter that she had used a chemical to erase her fingerprints.
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I immediately realized I needed to do something to erase that legacy from my memory.
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The shaman is frequently seen correcting the workmen and making them erase and revise their work.
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I scribbled in pencil—which you can erase with a bit of bread—some notes on the Cajan song, that may interest you.
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The test applied was to erase some particular letter of the alphabet from one page of a book.
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We may have to use her own machine once more to erase the memory of its structure from her mind.
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If they should allow it, they will erase it from this account, No. 2.
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British Dictionary definitions for erase verb to obliterate or rub out (something written, typed, etc)
(tr) to destroy all traces of; remove completely time erases grief
to remove (a recording) from (magnetic tape)
(tr) computing to replace (data) on a storage device with characters representing an absence of data
Derived forms of erase erasable , adjective Word Origin for erase C17: from Latin ērādere to scrape off, from ex- 1 + rādere to scratch, scrape
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