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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

Literary usage of Erase

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Index to the North American Review, Volumes I.-CXXV., 1815-1877by William Cushing by William Cushing (1878)
"Line 21 from bottom, erase H. Adams and read TS Perry. " 35. ... Lines G and 7 from top, erase GW and read SF Haven. " 100. Line 23 from top, erase WW ..."

2. The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our (1849)
"On page 158, erase the name of Josiah Abbott, Marlboro', and insert BH Davis ... On page 61, erase the names of Jabez Bosworth, Eli Ensign, Thomas Allen and ..."

3. History of the Public School Society of the City of New York: With Portraits by William Oland Bourne (1870)
"Page 111, erase first five lines. Page 123, erase last paragraph, chapter 134. Page 140, erase five lines from the top, " and there is no doubt the lower ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1825)
"... which Leo wished to erase, was transcribed in the symbol, and chanted in the liturgy of the Vatican. The Nicene and Athanasian creeds are held as the ..."

5. Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society by New Hampshire Historical Society (1827)
"Richard Russell, was Speaker in October, 1644 May, 1649, erase Concord after Thomas Jones, and insert Dorchester. erase Dorchester after Hugh Prichard, ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1864)
"... edge at the other to erase with. To make us sure that the bank of the Thames in Roman times extended' thus far, ..."

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