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- DictionaryE·rase/əˈrās/
verb
- 1. rub out or remove (writing or marks): "graffiti had been erased from the wall"
Definitions of erase. verb. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing. “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!” synonyms: efface, rub out, score out, wipe off. see more. verb. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information. synonyms: delete. see more. verb. remove from memory or existence. synonyms: wipe out. see more.
1. a. To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping. b. To remove (recorded material) from a magnetic tape or other storage medium: erased a file from the hard drive. c. To remove recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk, for example): erased the DVD. 2.
to remove or destroy something, especially something that shows that that person or thing ever existed or happened: The president said NATO expansion would finally erase the boundary line in Europe artificially created by the Cold War. Years of hard living had blurred but not erased her girlhood beauty.
verb (used with object), e·rased, e·ras·ing. 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.
erase something to make a mark or something you have written disappear, for example by rubbing it, especially in order to correct it. He had erased the wrong word. All the phone numbers had been erased. The tide had erased the footprints.
2 days ago · 1. to obliterate or rub out (something written, typed, etc) 2. (transitive) to destroy all traces of; remove completely. time erases grief. 3. to remove (a recording) from ( magnetic tape ) 4. (transitive) computing. to replace ( data) on a storage device with characters representing an absence of data.
verb. /ɪˈreɪs/ Verb Forms. to remove something completely erase something She tried to erase the memory of that evening. erase something from something All doubts were suddenly erased from his mind. You cannot erase injustice from the world. Definitions on the go.
