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Definition of Erase

1. Verb. Remove from memory or existence. "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"

2. Verb. Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing. "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

3. Verb. Wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information. "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"

Definition of Erase

1. 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.

Definition of Erase

1. Verb. (transitive) to remove markings or information ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To be erased (gloss have markings removed, have information removed(,) or be cleared of information). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Erase

1. to rub or scrape out [v ERASED, ERASING, ERASES] : ERASABLE [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erase

eradicates eradicating eradication eradications eradicative eradicator eradicators eragrostis eras erasabilities

erasability erasable erasable programmable logic device erasable programmable read-only memory erasably eraser eraser pen eraser pens eraserlike erasers

erases erasin erasing erasions erastai

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