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Definitions of erase

1. wipe out magnetically recorded information Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

2. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

3. remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

4. To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name. Webster Dictionary DB

5. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; - used of ideas in the mind or memory. Webster Dictionary DB

6. To rub or scrape out; blot or cross out; to efface. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

7. Erasure. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

8. To rub or scrape out: to efface: to destroy. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

9. ERASABLE. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

10. ERASER. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

11. To scrape out; efface. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

12. To obliterate, as by scraping out; efface. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

13. To rub or scrape out; to efface; to hlot out; to destroy to the foundation. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

14. To scrape or rub out; to obliterate; to expunge; to blot out or deface. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

15. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. mso.anu.edu.au

16. e-r[=a]s', v.t. to rub or scrape out: to efface: to destroy.--adj. ER[=A]'SABLE.--p.adj. ERASED', rubbed out: effaced: (her.) torn off, so as to leave jagged edges.--ns. ER[=A]'SER, one who, or that which, erases, as ink-eraser; ER[=A]'SION, ERASE'MENT, ER[=A]'SURE, the act of erasing: a rubbing out: the place where something written has been rubbed out. [L. erad[)e]re--e, out, rad[)e]re, rasum, to scrape.] gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

17. Rub out; obliterate. Hence erasable a., eraser (2), erasure (-zher), nn. [Latin] Concise Oxford Dictionary

18. To destroy, to rub out; to expunge. Complete Dictionary