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Synonyms for erase
ɪˈreɪserase

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.5 / 2 votes

  1. erase

    Cancel, efface, erase, expunge, and obliterate have as their first meaning the removal of written characters or other forms of record. To cancel is, literally, to make a lattice by cross-lines, exactly our English cross out; to efface is to rub off, smooth away the face, as of an inscription; to erase is to scratch out, commonly for the purpose of writing something else in the same space; to expunge, is to punch out with some sharp instrument, so as to show that the words are no longer part of the writing; to obliterate is to cover over or remove, as a letter, as was done by reversing the Roman stylus, and rubbing out with the rounded end what had been written with the point on the waxen tablet. What has been canceled, erased, expunged, may perhaps still be traced; what is obliterated is gone forever, as if it had never been. In many establishments, when a debt is discharged by payment, the record is canceled. The figurative use of the words keeps close to the primary sense. Compare ABOLISH.

    Synonyms:
    abolish, abrogate, annul, blot out, cancel, cross off, cross out, discharge, efface, expunge, make void, nullify, obliterate, quash, remove, repeal, rescind, revoke, rub off, rub out, scratch out, vacate

    Antonyms:
    approve, confirm, enact, enforce, establish, maintain, perpetuate, record, reenact, sustain, uphold, write

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  1. erase

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, efface, expunge, blot, cancel

    Antonyms:
    mark, write, delineate

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. erase, wipe outverb

    remove from memory or existence

    "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"

    Synonyms:
    deplete, eat, annihilate, cancel out, wipe out, rub out, score out, decimate, kill, eat up, carry off, delete, sweep away, exhaust, extinguish, consume, run through, obliterate, efface, wipe off, eliminate, use up, eradicate

    Antonyms:
    record, tape

  2. erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe offverb

    remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

    "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

    Synonyms:
    efface, rub out, score out, obliterate, wipe off, wipe out, wipe away, delete

    Antonyms:
    tape, record

  3. erase, deleteverb

    wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

    "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"

    Synonyms:
    efface, edit, rub out, score out, wipe off, cancel, blue-pencil, wipe out, delete

    Antonyms:
    tape, record

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  1. eraseverb

    Synonyms:
    efface, obliterate, rase, expunge, cancel, blot, scratch out, scrape out, rub out, blot out

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. eraseverb

    Synonyms:
    expunge, rub out, efface, obliterate, dele, delete

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#107435decimate
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How to use erase in a sentence?

  1. Sarah Erickson:

    Suicide is something nobody wants to talk about, you can't just erase a kid and expect to prevent future suicides. Nothing changes unless Minneapolis Star Tribune is talked about. Isanti Middle School failed.

  2. President Trump:

    We must work together to confront forces whether they come from inside or out, south or east, that threaten to undermine these values and erase the bonds of culture, faith and tradition that makes us who we are, these forces are doomed to fail if we want them to fail, and we do indeed want them to fail.

  3. Raumesh Akbari:

    This offensive legislation pretends skin color has never mattered in our country. As far too many Americans know, race-based oppression, discrimination and inequality has been a fact of life since before the dawn of our nation, our children deserve to learn the full story and truth of our people — the victories and the struggles. Unfortunately, the controlling party is attempting to erase historical fact in favor [of] whitewashed falsehoods.

  4. Fernando Bermudez:

    My family and I are thankful that we have finally reached a settlement, of course, the settlement will never erase the injustice that I experienced as an innocent man in prison.

  5. David Axelrod:

    There may be a seductive belief that by naming a running mate, you can magically erase political deficits, but at the end of the day, voters select the person on the top of the ticket, not the understudy.


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