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erase English

Meaning erase meaning

What does erase mean?
Definitions in simple English

erase Verb

— If you erase something, you remove markings or information. I erased that note because it was wrong. The chalkboard erased easily. The files will erase quickly. — If you erase someone, you kill or assassinate them.

erase

— verb remove from memory or existence The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915 — verb remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong! — verb wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information Who erased the files form my hard disk?

Synonyms erase synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as erase?

erase English » English

delete rub out efface wipe out obliterate wipe off cancel wipe expunge eliminate cross out rub off remove revoke eradicate destroy repeal extinguish clear call off strike out blot out wipe away quench wipe up scrape score out rub kill abolish waste use up sweep strike off slake rub away refute ravage get rid of extirpate excise erasure disprove devastate destruct demolish confute clean brush zap

Topics erase topics

What do people use erase to talk about?
Daily life Cleaning

Wipe, erase
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Remove, take apart

Conjugation erase conjugation

How do you conjugate erase?

erase · verb

Examples erase examples

How do I use erase in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He wishes to erase bad memories.
You can't erase the past.
One cannot erase the past.
Don't erase the sample sentence.
It's written in pencil, so you can erase it.
You forgot to erase your name.
Don't erase the board.

Movie subtitles

You promise you'll erase it?
You might change your name, but you can't erase the brand.
Are you stating that letter you swindled out of the Duke can erase the list of your evil deeds?
You may have heard that I can erase a memory, good or bad, but it's not true.
Erase three years from your history. It won't be hard.
I tried to erase the barony and all it represented.
But you can't erase a signature written with your own blood, you know.
Go to the palace and erase every single trace of me there.
I wouldn't erase that.
We've tried to erase the wrong done her with the love we have for her.
If words can erase some of the dishonor. that your deeds have brought upon our name, you must speak, Isabella.
Does one crime erase another?
Well, erase it.
He's gotta erase an awful lot of ugly pictures from his mind.
Wasn't expecting that. Who knew they could erase the Director's existence?
It appears as though Pyotr isn't the only one to erase memories.
Did you say erase memories?
I will accomplish this by fusing Ivan's telepathy with my own powers, then erase humanity's useless memories.
They may be a precious and cherished thing to humans, but if one were to erase them completely, then there would be no more grief in the world.
See all the little pencil erasers trying to erase each other?
Brunton's murderer's in this house and he's bound to make one last effort to get down there - to erase those marks.
Maybe I should erase this?
Ackermann, erase the board.
I forgot to erase it.
Forgot to erase it.
I wrote it during prep and forgot to erase it.
You think that your admission of guilt will erase everything?
Even though I had wanted. to erase the picture of this sister, it was impossible.
You'd like to erase all this, like nothing happened!
Your words will serve to erase your actions.
Nobody will be able to erase them.
Almost as if God Almighty has decided to erase the earth the walls, all traces, even the echo of the few things that happen around here.
So he had to erase the crime, at least in his own mind.
You erase from within me every trace of vanity.
Perhaps he hoped for a miracle to erase the sight from his eyes!
To erase me from people's memories.
We'll erase him forever from our minds.
No. You have seen the truth of our city. It is beyond our power to erase this from your memory.

News and current affairs

Common rules to eliminate cross-border tax evasion, and thus erase this perception, should become a priority.
In the years that have passed, China's leaders were responsible not only for Zhao's unlawful house arrest but also for a systematic effort to erase his name from history.
The decade-long economic slowdown of the 1990's tarnished Japan's reputation, but it did not erase Japan's soft-power resources.
PARIS - How difficult is it to erase one's past as a colonial power?
There is no analogous set of floodlights being deployed to erase the shadow that is currently being cast by the lesser depression.
Just as countries might want to wipe out their debt and start anew, individuals might like to erase their electronic past in a dramatic act of liberation.

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