Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
- 3verb
remove from memory or existence
"The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
- 4verb
wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
"Who erased the files form my hard disk?"
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- 5verb
remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
"Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
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