erase

Universal Words 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.