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| 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. |
| 7. | to give way to effacement readily or easily. |
| 8. | to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something. |
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tr.v. e·rased, e·ras·ing, e·ras·es
[Latin ērādere, ērās-, to scratch out : ē-, ex-, ex- + rādere, to scrape; see rēd- in Indo-European roots.] Synonyms: These verbs mean to remove or invalidate something, especially something stored, recorded, or written down. To erase is to wipe or rub out, literally or figuratively: erased the equation from the blackboard; erased any hope of success. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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.
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| erase | |
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| 1. | remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" |
| 2. | remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!" |
| 3. | wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?" [ant: record] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
erase [iˈreiz, (American) iˈreis] verb
to rub out (pencil marks etc)
Example: The typist tried to erase the error.
See also: eraserExample: The typist tried to erase the error.
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erase
delete
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Erase
E*rase"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Erased; p. pr. & vb. n.. Erasing.] [L. erasus, p. p. of eradere to erase; e out + radere to scrape, scratch, shave. See Rase.]1. To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name. 2. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. --Burke.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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