单词 | erase |
释义 | erase —erasability, n. —erasable, adj. /i rays"/, v. , erased, erasing. v.t. 1. to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface. 2. to eliminate completely: She couldn't erase the tragic scene from her memory. 3. to obliterate (material recorded on magnetic tape or a magnetic disk): She erased the message. 4. to obliterate recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk): He accidentally erased the tape. 5. Computers. to remove (data) from computer storage. 6. Slang. to murder: The gang had to erase him before he informed on them. v.i. 7. to give way to effacement readily or easily. 8. to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something. [1595-1605; < L erasus (ptp. of eradere), equiv. to e- E- + rasus scraped; see RAZE] Syn. 1. expunge, obliterate. See cancel. Ant. 1, 3. restore. |
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