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e⋅rase

  [i-reys] verb, e⋅rased, e⋅ras⋅ing.
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–verb (used with object)
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.
–verb (used without object)
7. to give way to effacement readily or easily.
8. to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something.
Origin:
1595–1605; < L ērāsus (ptp. of ērādere), equiv. to ē- e- + rāsus scraped; see raze

Related forms:
e⋅ras⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
e⋅ras⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. expunge, obliterate. See cancel.

Antonyms:
1, 3. restore.
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e·ras·a·ble   (ĭ-rā'sə-bəl)   
adj.  

  1. Capable of being erased: erasable ink.

  2. Capable of producing something that can be erased: an erasable pen.

e·ras'a·bil'i·ty n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
erase

  1. tv.
    to kill someone. : Mr. Gutman decided who was gonna erase who.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

erase 
1605, from L. erasus, pp. of eradere "scrape out," from ex- "out" + radere "to scrape" (see raze). Of magnetic tape, from 1945. Eraser "thing that erases writing" is 1790, in Amer.Eng.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: erase
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: erased; eras·ing
: to seal and protect (criminal records) from disclosure
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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