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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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..
Delete :: Delete (v. t.) To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
Erased :: Erased (imp. & p. p.) of Eras.
Erasement :: Erasement (n.) The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.
Dash :: Dash (v. t.) To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word..
Dispunge :: Dispunge (v. t.) To expunge; to erase.
Deletitious :: Deletitious (a.) Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper.
Unwrite :: Unwrite (v. t.) To cancel, as what is written; to erase..
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..
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..
Palimpsest :: Palimpsest (n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second..
Rase :: Rase (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
Deleble :: Deleble (a.) Capable of being blotted out or erased.
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..
Rubber :: Rubber (n.) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc..
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..
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: /..
Delenda :: Delenda (n. pl.) Things to be erased or blotted out.
Couped :: Couped (a.) Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased..
Disenroll :: Disenroll (v. i.) To erase from a roll or list.
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