Definition of erase Erase

/ɪɹejˈs/ - [ireys] - e•rase

We found 13 definitions of erase from 6 different sources.

What does erase mean?

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Verb erases, erasing, erased
erase - remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
		rub out, score out, efface, wipe off
		delete, cancel remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"
		sponge gather sponges, in the ocean
		scratch out, cut out strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out; "scratch out my name on that list"
erase - wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"
		delete
		tape, record fasten or attach with tape; "tape the shipping label to the box"
		take away, take out take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
		recording, transcription the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"
		demagnetise, demagnetize make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of); "demagnetize the iron shavings"; "they degaussed the ship"
erase - remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
		wipe out
		kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

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Wiktionary

erase (Verb)
To remove markings or information.
erase (Verb)
To obliterate information from a storage medium, such as to clear or with magnetic storage to demagnetize.
erase (Verb)
To obliterate information from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
erase (Verb)
To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

erase (v. t.)
To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
erase (v. t.)
Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

erase
To remove markings or information.
erase
To rub or wipe out.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

erase
e-rās′, v.t. to rub or scrape out: to efface: to destroy.—adj. Erā′sable.—p.adj. Erased′, rubbed out: effaced: (her.) torn off, so as to leave jagged edges.—ns. Erā′ser, one who, or that which, erases, as ink-eraser; Erā′sion, Erase′ment, Erā′sure, the act of erasing: a rubbing out: the place where something written has been rubbed out. [L. eradĕre—e, out, radĕre, rasum, to scrape.]

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erase, verb, present, 1st person singular of erase (infinitive).
erase, verb (infinitive).

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