Definitions for erase

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erase e·rase

Spelling: [ih-reys]

IPA: /ɪˈreɪs/

Erase is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in erase (aeers).

Definitions for erase

verb (used with object)

1. to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
2. to eliminate completely:
3. to obliterate (material recorded on magnetic tape or a magnetic disk):
4. to obliterate recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk):
5. Computers. to remove (data) from computer storage.
6. Slang. to murder:

verb (used without object)

1. to give way to effacement readily or easily.
2. to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something.

Origin of erase

1595-1605; Latin ērāsus (past participle of ērādere), equivalent to ē- e-¹ + rāsus scraped; see raze

Examples for erase

Later, she told a local reporter that she had used a chemical to erase her fingerprints.

I immediately realized I needed to do something to erase that legacy from my memory.

Its militants say explicitly they are out to erase the borders that Sykes-Picot established across most of the modern Middle East.

Hence we erase all optional marks in the 1st and 3rd rows, but let them stand in the 2nd.

Do as Tumblr has done and scrub her last words off the Internet—erase everything she wanted the world to hear.

And if he depart, let him erase all the entries which have been made by him in the register kept by the magistrates.

He could not erase errors, or paint them over, as an artist does.

Is this a mature expression of understandable judgment, or a bid to erase history while conflating fiction and reality?

I find she quite ignores it, if she has sums to do, or blots to erase.

And first of all, erase from it all that you have heard me say in the council-room.