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erased

[ih-reys] Origin

e·rase

[ih-reys] verb, e·rased, e·ras·ing.
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.
EXPAND
6.
Slang. to murder: The gang had to erase him before he informed on them.
COLLAPSE
verb (used without object)
7.
to give way to effacement readily or easily.
8.
to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something.

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Erased is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Latin ērāsus (past participle of ērādere), equivalent to ē- e- + rāsus scraped; see raze

e·ras·a·bil·i·ty, noun
e·ras·a·ble, adjective
half-e·rased, adjective
non·e·ras·a·ble, adjective
un·e·ras·a·ble, adjective
EXPAND
un·e·rased, adjective
un·e·ras·ing, adjective
COLLAPSE

erasable, irascible.


1. expunge, obliterate. See cancel.


1, 3. restore.

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Word Origin & History

erase
c.1600, from L. erasus, pp. of eradere "scrape out," from ex- "out" + radere "to scrape" (see raze). Of magnetic tape, from 1945.
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Slang Dictionary

erase definition


  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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