verb [VN]
1 ~ sth (from sth) to remove sth completely:
She tried to erase the memory of that evening. * All doubts were suddenly erased from his mind. * You cannot erase injustice from the world.
2 to make a mark or sth you have written disappear, for example by rubbing it, especially in order to correct it:
He had erased the wrong word. * All the phone numbers had been erased. * The tide had erased the footprints.
3 to remove a recording from a tape or information from a computer's memory:
Parts of the recording have been erased. * He had erased more than 5000 files from the memory of his computer.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for erase is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does erase appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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