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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1. Jack Green:

   It's the deliberate destruction of a heritage and its images, intended to erase history and the identity of the people of Iraq, whether in the past or the present, and it has a major impact on the heritage of the region.

2. Jared Holt:

   Banning Trump is not a magic bullet to erase that kind of disinformation from the platforms, but it is a place to start.

3. 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.

4. President Lee C. Bollinger:

   Of course, we can not, indeed should not, erase Samuel Bard's contributions to the medical school, but we must not recall this history without also recognizing the reason for our decision to rename Bard Hall.

5. Luis Buñuel:

   I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.