Definition of erase

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Erase (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..

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Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out..
Rase :: Rase (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
Erased :: Erased (p. pr. & a.) Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.
Erasable :: Erasable (a.) Capable of being erased.
Dispunge :: Dispunge (v. t.) To expunge; to erase.
Rasure :: Rasure (v.) A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure..
Delenda :: Delenda (n. pl.) Things to be erased or blotted out.
Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing..
Erase :: Erase (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
Couped :: Couped (a.) Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased..
Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name..
Disenroll :: Disenroll (v. i.) To erase from a roll or list.
Palimpsest :: Palimpsest (n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second..
Erase :: Erase (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..
Dele :: Dele (v. t.) To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.
Delete :: Delete (v. t.) To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
Efface :: Efface (v. t.) To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin..
Erasement :: Erasement (n.) The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.
Deletitious :: Deletitious (a.) Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper.
Erased :: Erased (p. pr. & a.) Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped..
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