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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
erase
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
deficit
▪ But the Clippers nearly erased that deficit as they trailed 56-53 when Barry hit a 3-pointer to start the third quarter.
▪ A marvelous comeback, erasing a 24-point deficit against the two-time defending world champions.
memory
▪ Although such incidents rankled, the cutter crews' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories.
▪ They badly needed to get off strong Sunday to erase that memory.
▪ The answer is always to erase everything from memory pertaining to previous projects.
▪ How much else had he forgotten: Did hibernation erase memory?
▪ Five years can change opinions; ten years can erase memories.
▪ Might not a murderer, she wondered, erase the memory of the deed?
▪ So why couldn't she erase from her memory the image of fitzAlan, tall and strong and golden in the firelight?
▪ He must so dearly have wished the first two sets could have been instantly erased from memory.
mind
▪ She was absorbed in the primitive ritual of the hunt and work was erased from her mind.
■ VERB
press
▪ Then press Del to erase the Field and Word entries for key 2. 11.
try
▪ And then ceased trying to erase the distance between them.
▪ On another front, Farrakhan met last week with 10 Phoenix area business and community leaders to try to erase misunderstandings.
▪ For those who could not laugh, the best remedy might be to try to erase the whole subject from their minds.
▪ Do not try to erase anything as remote from basic-basic as birth unless the file clerk insists on presenting birth.
▪ Would it be like this, now with him, whom she was trying to erase.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Be sure to completely erase any incorrect answer.
▪ Ben erased one of my favorite tapes.
▪ Is there any way I can erase this videotape so no one will see what's on it?
▪ Somehow the magnets had erased the entire cassette.
▪ The fall of the Berlin Wall erased the border between the two Germanys.
▪ Today's rise in prices erases yesterday's losses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, there is a vast discrepancy between the top and bottom that is erased within this ideology of flexibility.
▪ But those painful memories are erased by thoughts of future glory as Jodami whisks Anthea across the moorland gallops.
▪ Of course the text itself hadn't literally all been erased.
▪ Some businesses are attaching electronic copyright stamps to their work, and the bill would make erasing these stamps illegal.
▪ Telecommunications could erase all these indicators of rurality.
▪ Thus Experience has an undulating, open-ended form, something like a notebook whose pagination has been erased.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Erase

Erase \E*rase"\ ([-e]*r[=a]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Erased ([-e]*r[=a]st"); p. pr. & vb. n.. Erasing.] [L. erasus, p. p. of eradere to erase; e out + radere to scrape, scratch, shave. See Rase.]

  1. 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.

  2. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
    --Burke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
erase

c.1600, from Latin erasus, past participle of eradere "scrape out, scrape off, shave; abolish, remove," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + radere "to scrape" (see raze). Of magnetic tape, from 1945. Related: Erased; erasing.

Wiktionary
erase

vb. 1 (context transitive English) to remove markings or information 2 (context transitive English) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. 3 (context transitive English) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite. 4 (context transitive baseball English) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play 5 (context intransitive English) To be erased {{gloss|have markings removed, have information removed(,) or be cleared of information}}. 6 (context transitive English) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.

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WordNet
erase

  1. v. remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" [syn: wipe out]

  2. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!" [syn: rub out, score out, efface, wipe off]

  3. wipe out magnetically recorded information [syn: delete] [ant: record]

Wikipedia
Erase

Erase may refer to:

  • Data erasure, a method of software-based overwriting that completely destroys all electronic data
  • Data remanence, the residual representation of data that has been, in some way, nominally erased or removed
  • Erase (album), a 1994 death metal album by Gorefest
  • " Erase/Rewind", a 1998 pop/rock song by The Cardigans
Erase (album)

Erase is the third studio album released by Dutch death metal band Gorefest. It was released in 1994 Nuclear Blast Records.

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.