eraseverb [ T ]
uk/ɪˈreɪz/us/ɪˈreɪs/erase verb [ T ] (MARK)
B2 mainly US UK usually rub out to remove something, especially a pencil mark by rubbing it:
It's in pencil so you can just erase anything that's wrong.
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Deleting writing
- blank
- blank sth out
- cross
- cross sb/sth off (sth)
- cross sth out
- delete
- deletion
- edit
- edit sth out
- efface
- rub
- rub sth out
- score
- score sth out/through
- strike
- strike sth out/through
- x
erase verb [ T ] (RECORDING)
to remove recordings or information from a magnetic tape or disk:
A virus erased my hard disk.
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Recording sounds and images
- analogue
- audiovisual
- balance
- bass 1
- chart
- cover
- distortion
- HD
- hi-res
- high def
- play sth back
- playback
- prerecord
- produce
- remaster
- remix
- sound
- sound check
- studio
- videotape
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erase verb [ T ] (SOMETHING PAST)
to cause a feeling, memory, or period of time to be completely forgotten:
He is determined to erase the memory of a disappointing debut two years ago.
Woods wants a convincing victory to erase doubts about his team's ability to reach the World Cup finals.
One election cannot erase 65 years of a corrupt one-party political process.
literary to remove or destroy something, especially something that shows that that person or thing ever existed or happened:
The president said NATO expansion would finally erase the boundary line in Europe artificially created by the Cold War.
Years of hard living had blurred but not erased her girlhood beauty.
He was a man of mystery - erased from the history books.
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Forgetting and forgetfulness
- absent-minded
- be on the tip of your tongue idiom
- beneath the/sb's radar idiom
- blank
- blot sth out
- blur
- brain fade
- ear
- go in one ear and out the other idiom
- least
- least said soonest mended idiom
- lose sight of sth idiom 1
- lose sight of sth
- sight
- sink
- slip sb's memory/mind idiom
- slip through the net idiom
- take sb's mind off sth idiom
- unlearn
- your mind is a blank/goes blank idiom
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Removing and getting rid of things
erasure
noun [ C or U ] uk/ɪˈreɪ.ʒər/us/ɪˈreɪ.ʒɚ/
the act of erasing something:
the nuclear erasure of entire populations
the erasure of police audiotapes