to erase
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2.2
- verb
- /ɪˈreɪz/
:
borrar
- If you could press a button and erase it, would you?
- erase memories
- erase distinctions
- erase boundaries
If you could press a button and erase it, would you?
- If you could press a button and erase it, would you?
- We bent English, embraced it, then erased it at the same time.
- And so it's erased from the policy world.
- You could be rich man, but you cannot erase the work ethic part.
- And so the good days don't erase the slate.
- For one thing, it would erase the name of one of my books.
- This is that's how you erase its impact on you from the past.
- We may never know because we've erased our heritage.
- I think you have to number one, erase from mind.
- I have a pet peeve of erasing the library of the fallen pastor.
- Suzanne had erased the sting of my teachers cruelty.
- But would you erase all memories of a loved one if you could?
Examples
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There was nothing I could do to erase it.
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But would you erase all memories of a loved one if you could?
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For one thing, it would erase the name of one of my books.
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Very well, I will erase it from memory.
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You have to erase her from your mind.
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But she needed this moment to erase New York from her mind.
Fiction book (1996) -
Moe offered me a way to erase my past.
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Within two years, the state had used its new power to erase the townships from the map.
Academic text (2017) -
Some things even time couldn't erase, time that was the greatest enemy of flesh.
Fiction book (1991) -
If you could press a button and erase a painful memory, would you do it?
Synonyms
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1.0
Damage something so badly that it cannot be used or fixed
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3.4
Remove or kill something completely so it is gone
308
3.6
To erase all data on a computer or phone so it cannot be recovered
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2.0
To remove information like text or files so it cannot be seen
189
4.2
Destroy something so nothing is left
88
3.7
Remove something so it is no longer used
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6.6
Remove something harmful completely, for example a disease or pest
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7.5
To destroy something completely so nothing remains
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6.9
To destroy something completely, often on purpose
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6.3
To remove unwanted substances, things, or people by cleaning
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4.0
Remove an outside layer or covering from something to show what is under it
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4.9
To remove stored information from a device
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8.8
To remove all signs of something like a record or memory so it cannot be found
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4.1
Remove saved passwords or network names so the device no longer remembers them
2
8.1
To remove something so it is no longer visible or remembered
1
3.9
To destroy or carry something away completely, for example by water
1
9.9
To destroy something completely, including its root
Destroy all signs that show something happened
To remove something from a computer, especially files or text
To remove text from paper or a screen
Antonyms
How Erased
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word erase comes from an old Latin root radere meaning 'to scrape', like scraping a name off a stone. So to erase something from history or memory means to remove every trace of it.