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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.
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to obliterate recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk): He accidentally erased the tape.
5.
EXPANDComputers. to remove (data) from computer storage.
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COLLAPSESlang. 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.
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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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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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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