0 past simple and past participle of erase
1 to remove something, especially a pencil mark by rubbing it:
2 to remove recordings or information from a magnetic tape or disk:
3 to cause a feeling, memory, or period of time to be completely forgotten:
He is determined to erase the memory of a disappointing debut two years ago.
Woods wants a convincing victory to erase doubts about his team's ability to reach the World Cup finals.
One election cannot erase 65 years of a corrupt one-party political process.
The president said NATO expansion would finally erase the boundary line in Europe artificially created by the Cold War.
Years of hard living had blurred but not erased her girlhood beauty.
Local histories continue, remodelled, but not erased by globalization.
These biases can, to some extent, be erased.
Six cabins excavated to date had all been consciously erased from the landscape by the evictors.
Whereas earlier critics established that women's role in a new urbanism had been effectively erased, current scholars are still working to respond to this insight.
The fact that virtual tuples, virtual case expressions, and coercions are erased by type erasure underscores the virtual nature of these constructs.
The carnival erased social conventions by rendering them meaningless, and this 'decontextualization' relieved individuals from responsibility for their actions.
Uninterpretable features, on the other hand, are erased when checked and therefore only trigger movement once.
Event lists can be named, and when they are, they become persistent (until explicitly erased within a document or session).
