0 to remove something, especially a pencil mark by rubbing it: --
1 to remove recordings or information from a magnetic tape or disk: --
2 to cause a feeling, memory, or period of time to be completely forgotten: --
Years of hard living had blurred but not erased her girlhood beauty.
The president said NATO expansion would finally erase the boundary line in Europe artificially created by the Cold War.
One election cannot erase 65 years of a corrupt one-party political process.
Woods wants a convincing victory to erase doubts about his team's ability to reach the World Cup finals.
He is determined to erase the memory of a disappointing debut two years ago.
3 to destroy or remove something completely: --
5 to cancel the effect of an increase or fall in something such as an amount of debt, the price of shares, etc.: --
As mentioned above, family-polymorphic methods are translated to monomorphic methods by discarding type parameterization and erasing types and the method body.
Users may register with a number of pseudonyms, essentially erasing the effects of prior feedback.
In such types of metasemiotic work, the boundary between language and non-language is erased, yielding stereotypic constructs that motivate one in terms of the other.
Later perhaps, some properties of these items may be erased from memory because they fall under patterns that the learner has now spotted.
Simplification is expressed as a confluent rewrite strategy which uses three kinds of reductions: ^-reduction, non-erasing reduction, and erasing reduction.
They reported that both genes were unmethylated in fetal spermatogonia, suggesting that all pre-existing methylation imprints had already been erased by this developmental stage.
The inertia and erasing effects may interact in interesting ways.
The surveyor therefore did not travel alone: he was attended with a retinue of local labourers, who were eventually erased from the account.
