erase

erase is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
3. verb. remove from memory or existence

   "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"

4. verb. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

   "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"

   Synonyms: delete

5. verb. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

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

   Synonyms: efface

Synonyms

delete, efface

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in erase:

easer, saree

Common word forms

erased, eraser, erases, erasing, erasement

Words from these letters

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