erase

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  1. transitive verb To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping.
  2. transitive verb To remove (recorded material) from a magnetic tape or other storage medium: erased a file from the diskette.
  3. transitive verb To remove recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk, for example): erased the videocassette.
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  • Not with the memory of a dent in my car that no body shop could ever erase, and the slash of silver paint on the rock near the bridge. —  Magyar Venus
  • Their dilemma was written on a white-erase board on the wall of hospital room 313. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • "Living Off The Grid House" System easily enables us to 'erase' our elec. expenses from our monthly budget. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • By inserting a character named Resetti into every Animal Crossing game, Nintendo discourages players from reloading a game without saving, in order to 'erase' the results of any major error. —  IGN Complete
  • On the dry-erase board in the Palmetto Ridge coaches office, the team's depth chart lists the last name of every player on the roster.
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erase:   erasing ·  erased ·  erases
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin ērādere, ērās-, to scratch out : ē-, ex-, ex- + rādere, to scrape; see rēd- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin erasus, past participle of eradere, scratch out, from e, out, + radere, scrape, scratch: see rase, raze.
  2. from Latin erasus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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