erase
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
to eliminate completely: She couldn't erase the tragic scene from her memory.
to obliterate (material recorded on magnetic tape or a magnetic disk): She erased the message.
to obliterate recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk): He accidentally erased the tape.
Computers. to remove (data) from computer storage.
to exclude, replace, or refuse to recognize (the identity, experience, or contribution of a minority group or group member):Framing rape as a woman’s issue erases men’s accounts of sexual violence from public discourse.: See also whitewash (def. 7b).
Slang. to murder: The gang had to erase him before he informed on them.
to give way to effacement readily or easily.
to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something.
Origin of erase
1synonym study For erase
Other words for erase
Opposites for erase
Other words from erase
- 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
- un·e·rased, adjective
- un·e·ras·ing, adjective
Words that may be confused with erase
- erasable , irascible
Words Nearby erase
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How to use erase in a sentence
Milestone moments like graduation and homecoming have been erased.
One looming change is the death of the third party cookie, which threatens to erase everything brands thought they knew about harnessing data.
Brand Summit Recap: Marketers face looming identity crisis | Digiday Editors | February 10, 2021 | DigidayOnce barely touched, rural communities were experiencing multiple outbreaks, fueling a more than fivefold spike in infections that erased the racial gap seen until that point in the pandemic.
900,000 infected. Nearly 15,000 dead. How the coronavirus tore through D.C., Maryland and Virginia. | Rebecca Tan, Antonio Olivo, John D. Harden | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostThe 26-minute documentary introducing the groundless theory went viral on Facebook in the spring before the company moved to erase it from its platform.
Anti-vaccine protest at Dodger Stadium was organized on Facebook, including promotion of banned ‘Plandemic’ video | Isaac Stanley-Becker | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostThis lets you erase parts of the second layer while still seeing how it will line up with what’s behind it.
Do as Tumblr has done and scrub her last words off the Internet—erase everything she wanted the world to hear.
Cover-Ups and Concern Trolls: Actually, It's About Ethics in Suicide Journalism | Arthur Chu | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIs this a mature expression of understandable judgment, or a bid to erase history while conflating fiction and reality?
Its militants say explicitly they are out to erase the borders that Sykes-Picot established across most of the modern Middle East.
Turkish President Declares Lawrence of Arabia a Bigger Enemy than ISIS | Jamie Dettmer | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLater, she told a local reporter that she had used a chemical to erase her fingerprints.
The Mystery Woman Who Tried to Outdo Dillinger | Michael Daly | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI was worried that a movie about the case would erase Meredith for good.
What It's Like to Watch Kate Beckinsale Play You in a Movie | Barbie Latza Nadeau | September 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut they could not erase the past; they could not control the more distant future.
The Bronze Eagle | Emmuska Orczy, Baroness OrczyThe test applied was to erase some particular letter of the alphabet from one page of a book.
The Sexual Life of the Child | Albert MollI pointed out where the ground had been smoothed over as though to erase the traces of a struggle.
A Frontier Mystery | Bertram MitfordYou worked your way outward on this run, and the High Council didn't see fit to erase those memories or inhibit them.
The Colors of Space | Marion Zimmer BradleyIn regard to the chemicals used to erase ink, much depends upon the ink.
Disputed Handwriting | Jerome B. Lavay
British Dictionary definitions for erase
/ (ɪˈreɪz) /
to obliterate or rub out (something written, typed, etc)
(tr) to destroy all traces of; remove completely: time erases grief
to remove (a recording) from (magnetic tape)
(tr) computing to replace (data) on a storage device with characters representing an absence of data
Origin of erase
1Derived forms of erase
- erasable, adjective
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