| 单词 | erase |
| 释义 | erase I. transitive verb 1. a. (1) < erased the chalk marks > < a typing error neatly erased > (2) < the recording can be erased and the tape used again > also b. < the school children erased the blackboard > 2. a. < a plan to erase the boundary between the countries > < time had erased the bitter memories > specifically < the efforts of a group of murderers to erase a blinded man — Anthony Boucher > b. < the … statement had erased in one day months of patient work — W.J.Jordan > c. < profit taking erased most of these gains — Wall Street Journal > intransitive verb 1. < marks that erase easily > < tape that erases when recorded over > 2. < a tape recorder that erases at a higher speed > Synonyms: < erase a misspelled word > < a child erasing numbers from a slate > < so violently have they hated the soul of the modern man that they have wished to erase from the record of history every thought and deed since the Renaissance — J.W.Krutch > expunge, especially in relation to tangible and simple action, has been influenced by sponge and stresses a complete washing out or off of whatever is affected or indicates its complete removal from consideration < expunge a false report > < irrelevant testimony expunged from a court proceeding > < a woman's history, you know: certain chapters expunged — George Meredith > blot (out) suggests the complete covering or obscuring of an impression by smearing or blurring over < lines of the manuscript blotted out by spilled ink > < the same process by which Communist literature first blackened, and then blotted out altogether, Trotsky's exploits in the civil war — Times Literary Supplement > efface suggests complete removal of an impression, sometimes through slow attrition and wear < inscriptions on a pyramid effaced by time > < a cliché, a worn counter of a word, with its original meaning all effaced, and even its secondary meaning now only just visible — Havelock Ellis > obliterate is perhaps the most forceful of this group in connoting utter, complete, and inexorable removal or elimination of all traces of impressions < a flash of lightning obliterated the first letter of ‘Caesar’ on a statue of Augustus — John Buchan > < the Navajo was careful to obliterate every trace of their temporary occupation — Willa Cather > With no suggestion of either the destruction or the preservation of the marks or symbols involved, delete now stresses simple exclusion < delete a word unnecessarily repeated > < whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — wholeheartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press — A.T.Quiller-Couch > cancel, formerly indicating to cross out, now stresses invalidation, nullification, or reduction to insignificance < the laboratory door does not lock behind him and bar his return any more than it swung shut to imprison Darwin and forever cancel his status as a naturalist — American Naturalist > Many of these words show semantic developments to ideas of destroying, killing, annihilating < the killers may in time succeed in erasing me — V.A.Kravchenko > < the few survivors of the brilliant generation of young Englishmen expunged by the first World War — Jack Winocour > < they [enemy soldiers] were just blotted out — Nevil Shute > and to ideas of balancing, offsetting, equaling, nullifying with equal opposing force < the … mixture of races canceling each other's beliefs — T.S.Eliot > < a hideous phrase which no amount of palliation can ever quite obliterate — P.E.More > The semantic extensions may retain nuances of meaning implied in older uses. II. |
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