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Showing words for ERASE using the English dictionary

5 Letter Words for Erase

easer, erase, seare

4 Letter Words for Erase

ares, ears, ease, eras, eres, erse, rees, sare, sear, seer, sere

3 Letter Words for Erase

aer, aes, are, ars, ase, ear, eas, eer, era, ere, ers, ese, esr, ras, rea, ree, res, sar, sea, see, ser

Definitions for Erase

[1] to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
[2] to eliminate completely: She couldn't erase the tragic scene from her memory.
[3] to obliterate (material recorded on magnetic tape or a magnetic disk): She erased the message.
[4] to obliterate recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk): He accidentally erased the tape.
[5] Computers . to remove (data) from computer storage.
[6] Slang . to murder: The gang had to erase him before he informed on them.
[7] to give way to effacement readily or easily.
[8] to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something.
[9] to obliterate or rub out (something written, typed, etc)
[10] (tr) to destroy all traces of; remove completely time erases grief
[11] to remove (a recording) from (magnetic tape)
[12] (tr) computing to replace (data) on a storage device with characters representing an absence of data

Words related to Erase

expunge, obliterate, abolish, eliminate, negate, delete, efface, trim, cut, excise, blank, dispatch, nullify, strike, blot, kill, extirpate, withdraw, gut, cancel

Words nearby Erase

er rif, era, eradiate, eradicable, eradicate, erase, eraser, erasing head, erasion, erasistratus, erasmian

Origin of Erase

1595–1605; < Latin ērāsus (past participle of ērādere ), equivalent to ē- e-1 + rāsus scraped; see raze

Words that may be confused with Erase

erasable, irascible

Other words from Erase

e·ras·a·bil·i·ty , noun
e·ras·a·ble , adjective
half-e·rased , adjective
non·e·ras·a·ble , adjective
un·e·ras·a·ble , adjective
un·e·rased , adjective
un·e·ras·ing , adjective

Word origin for Erase

C17: from Latin ērādere to scrape off, from ex- 1 + rādere to scratch, scrape

Synonyms for Erase

abolish, delete, eliminate, expunge, negate, obliterate, wipe out, annul, blank, blot, cancel, cut, dispatch, efface, excise, extirpate, gut, kill, launder, nullify, strike, trim, withdraw, X-out, black out, blue pencil, cross out, cut out, disannul, scratch out, stamp out, strike out, take out