Backspace, on a computer

Usage examples of erase.

It was as if he could see Ado and the others standing there in the flickering torchlight, grim spectres at the feast that no amount of alcohol or take would erase.

A little alnico magnet, stuck in exactly the right place with a wad of chewing gum, can erase a hundred thousand units of information before they find it.

The reason for her expulsion would be erased not only from the records but also from the memory of the Community, and this would allow her to finish her studies and receive her baccalaureate degree.

Therewere always loose backs to be fastened on securely, notes to be erased from margins, pages to be mended, labels to belettered and affixed.

He had erased the blemish completely and then faintly shaded the area so that it looked like the rest of her skin.

Erase Khitu and Chai, and Kettrick vanishes as though he had never returned to Ree Darva, leaving only Seri and Larith to remember in discreet silence.

He had returned to temporarily deactivate the computer just as he had erased the central surveillance tapes.

If I can just get past security, a couple of simple commands can erase the two dibs I have against me.

Whenever a new differentiation is not matched by a new and equal integration, whenever there is negation without preservation, the result is pathology of one sort or another, a pathology that, if severe enough, evolution sets about to erase in earnest.

And those memories had simply been removed, downloaded to computer storage and then erased from his engram matrix.

The laughter erased the tension with which each had begun the day, venting it all at once.

In the end Patrick erased everything but the eyes, and these the remaining bit of rubber would not even blur.

All else had been blocked off, gone as if erased, for it was irrelevant.

Not only were their original selves erased, but in apparently a last gesture towards us their marking programs were also erased.

They had no effect on the spell, but as soon as it took effect those numbers were erased from the memory of the bound one and from the actual spell itself.