Erase
[ɪ'reɪz] or [ɪ'res]
Definition
(verb.) remove from memory or existence; 'The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915'.
(verb.) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; 'Who erased the files form my hard disk?'.
(verb.) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; 'Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!'.
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Definition
(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.
(v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Efface, obliterate, rase, expunge, cancel, blot, scratch out, scrape out, rub out, blot out.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Obliterate, efface, expunge, blot, cancel
ANT:Mark, write, delineate
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- But he was awake now; all this should be remedied; and future devotion erase the memory of this only blot on the serenity of their life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And one feature they will erase, and another they will put in, until they have made the ways of men, as far as possible, agreeable to the ways of God? Plato. The Republic.
- To erase ink dip the end of a penholder or pencil in No.1 and apply to the writing, and do the same with No.2. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Let them speak the doom which I despise, and erase the name of Bois-Guilbert from their list of monastic slaves! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was late in the day before the whole inscription was erased. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That inscription is now erased. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Were the pride of ancestry, the patrician spirit, the gentle courtesies and refined pursuits, splendid attributes of rank, to be erased among us? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The long duration of his malady has probably erased from his mind all vestige of her; and it were well that it should never again be imprinted. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If the characters are not erased repeat as before. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But this was useless; his attempt was registered; his purpose published to the world; his shame could never be erased from the memories of men. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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