Definition of erase

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Erase (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.

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Delete :: Delete (v. t.) To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
Stetted :: Stet (subj. 3d pers. sing.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain..
Disenroll :: Disenroll (v. i.) To erase from a roll or list.
Erasable :: Erasable (a.) Capable of being erased.
Erased :: Erased (p. pr. & a.) Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.
Dele :: Dele (v. t.) To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.
Dispunge :: Dispunge (v. t.) To expunge; to erase.
Palimpsest :: Palimpsest (n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second..
Raze :: Raze (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
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..
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..
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..
Erased :: Erased (imp. & p. p.) of Eras.
Dele :: Dele (imperative sing.) Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /..
Deletitious :: Deletitious (a.) Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper.
Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing..
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..
Dash :: Dash (v. t.) To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word..
Deleble :: Deleble (a.) Capable of being blotted out or erased.
Erasement :: Erasement (n.) The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.
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