erase betydelse and definition

Betydelse av erase på svenska

• 0 to remove something, especially a pencil mark by rubbing it:

  • It's in pencil so you can just erase anything that's wrong.

• 1 to remove recordings or information from a magnetic tape or disk:

  • A virus erased my hard disk.

• 2 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.

  • He was a man of mystery - erased from the history books.

• 3 to destroy or remove something completely:

  • A subdirectory filled with precious data can be erased if you are not careful.

• 4 to remove something written or a mark by rubbing:

  • I kept changing my mind and erasing my answers on the test.

• 5 to cancel the effect of an increase or fall in something such as an amount of debt, the price of shares, etc.:

  • erase a deficit/debt/loss To erase the budget deficit through cuts alone would mean extreme measures such as shutting prisons and college campuses.

  • erase a profit/gain

• 6 to remove information or data from the place where it was stored:

  • erase sth from sth Fraudulent accounts had been erased from the records.

  • All personal data is securely erased in accordance with our data protection policy.