Synonyms for erase
ɪˈreɪserase

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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

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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

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1. eraseverb

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "erase":

   wipe, delete, clear, erasure, clearing, drop, clears, deletion, efface, obliterate, deleting

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How to use erase in a sentence?

1. Hunter S. Thompson:

   Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final.

2. Christine Ahn:

   We have no illusions that our walk can basically erase the conflict that has endured for seven decades, i believe that we are, basically by crossing the DMZ, breaking through this mental state that this is a permanent division.

3. Trey Gowdy:

   This confirms doubts about the completeness of Clinton's self-selected public record and raises serious questions about her decision to erase her personal server -- especially before it could be analyzed by an independent, neutral third party arbiter, this has implications far beyond Libya, Benghazi and our committee's work. This conclusively shows her email arrangement with herself, which was then vetted by her own lawyers, has resulted in an incomplete public record.

4. Sean Hannitysaid:

   In what can only be described as a chilling, Orwellian effort now has emerged to silence, cancel, erase any opposition voices, now, couple this with the most radical, big government Socialist agenda that’s ever been proposed in American history, and a commitment to implementing it, and, of course, starting with this radical environmental Green New Deal and regulations canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and so much more – everything we warned you so much about.

5. Randy McNally:

   It is much more productive to learn from Randy McNally past and not repeat the imperfections of the past. Any attempt to erase the past only aligns society with the teaching of communism, which believes the present dominates the past. no one is arguing that Nathan Bedford Forrest is not a problematic figure. Nathan Bedford Forrest is. But there is more to Nathan Bedford Forrest story.