[i-reys] 
verb, e⋅rased, e⋅ras⋅ing.| 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. |
