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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary erase (erased ; eras·ing) ETYMOLOGY Latin erasus, past participle of eradere, from e- + radere to scratch, scrape — more at rodent DATE 1605 transitive verb 1. a. to rub or scrape out (as written, painted, or engraved letters) erase an error b. to remove written or drawn marks from erase a blackboard c. to remove (recorded matter) from a magnetic medium; also : to remove recorded matter from erase a videotape d. to delete from a computer storage device erase a file 2. a. to remove from existence or memory as if by erasing b. to nullify the effect or force of intransitive verb : to yield to erasure English Etymology erase 1605, from L. erasus, pp. of eradere "scrape out," from ex- "out" + radere "to scrape" (see raze). Of magnetic tape, from 1945. Eraser "thing that erases writing" is 1790, in Amer.Eng. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 erase erase / i5reiz; NAmE i5reis / verb[VN] 1. ~ sth (from sth) to remove sth completely 清除；消除；消灭: She tried to erase the memory of that evening. 她试图忘却那天晚上的事。 All doubts were suddenly erased from his mind. 他心中所有的疑虑突然烟消云散了。 You cannot erase injustice from the world. 任何人都不可能让非正义从世界上消失。 2. to make a mark or sth you have written disappear, for example by rubbing it, especially in order to correct it 擦掉,抹掉(笔迹等): He had erased the wrong word. 他擦去了写错的字。 All the phone numbers had been erased. 所有的电话号码都被抹掉了。 3. to remove a recording from a tape or information from a computer's memory 抹去,清洗(磁带上的录音或存贮器中的信息): Parts of the recording have been erased. 部份录音已被抹掉。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English erase verb ADV. completely | virtually | partially VERB + ERASE try to | be determined to They are determined to erase the bad memories of last year's defeats. PREP. from These people have been virtually erased from the history book. OLT erase verb ⇨ delete Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: erase head erase I. \ə̇ˈrās, ēˈ-, chiefly Brit -āz\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Latin erasus, past participle of eradere, from e- + radere to scratch, scrape — more at rat transitive verb 1. a. (1) : to rub or scrape out (as letters or figures written, engraved, or painted) < erased the chalk marks > < a typing error neatly erased > (2) : to remove (recorded matter) from a magnetic storage medium (as magnetic tape) so as to make the surface available for a new magnetic pattern : demagnetize < the recording can be erased and the tape used again > also : to subject (as a magnetic tape) to erasure b. : to remove marks, symbols, or other communicating devices from < the school children erased the blackboard > 2. a. : to remove from existence or memory as if by erasing : wipe out : obliterate < a plan to erase the boundary between the countries > < time had erased the bitter memories > specifically : to get rid of (a person) by murder < the efforts of a group of murderers to erase a blinded man — Anthony Boucher > b. : to nullify the effect or force of : remove from the necessity of consideration : make quite insignificant or inconsequential : annul < the … statement had erased in one day months of patient work — W.J.Jordan > c. : offset , neutralize , balance < profit taking erased most of these gains — Wall Street Journal> intransitive verb 1. : to yield to being erased < marks that erase easily > < tape that erases when recorded over > 2. : to remove marks or signals from something < a tape recorder that erases at a higher speed > Synonyms: expunge , blot (out), efface , obliterate , delete , cancel : erase stresses the fact of removal of symbols or impressions without important damage to the surface involved and may imply a resulting blank usable for a new symbol or impression < erase a misspelled word > < a child erasing numbers from a slate > < so violently have they hated the soul of the modern man that they have wished to erase from the record of history every thought and deed since the Renaissance — J.W.Krutch > expunge , especially in relation to tangible and simple action, has been influenced by sponge and stresses a complete washing out or off of whatever is affected or indicates its complete removal from consideration < expunge a false report > < irrelevant testimony expunged from a court proceeding > < a woman's history, you know: certain chapters expunged — George Meredith > blot (out) suggests the complete covering or obscuring of an impression by smearing or blurring over < lines of the manuscript blotted out by spilled ink > < the same process by which Communist literature first blackened, and then blotted out altogether, Trotsky's exploits in the civil war — Times Literary Supplement > efface suggests complete removal of an impression, sometimes through slow attrition and wear < inscriptions on a pyramid effaced by time > < a cliché, a worn counter of a word, with its original meaning all effaced, and even its secondary meaning now only just visible — Havelock Ellis > obliterate is perhaps the most forceful of this group in connoting utter, complete, and inexorable removal or elimination of all traces of impressions < a flash of lightning obliterated the first letter of ‘Caesar’ on a statue of Augustus — John Buchan > < the Navajo was careful to obliterate every trace of their temporary occupation — Willa Cather > With no suggestion of either the destruction or the preservation of the marks or symbols involved, delete now stresses simple exclusion < delete a word unnecessarily repeated > < whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — wholeheartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press — A.T.Quiller-Couch > cancel , formerly indicating to cross out, now stresses invalidation, nullification, or reduction to insignificance < the laboratory door does not lock behind him and bar his return any more than it swung shut to imprison Darwin and forever cancel his status as a naturalist — American Naturalist > Many of these words show semantic developments to ideas of destroying, killing, annihilating < the killers may in time succeed in erasing me — V.A.Kravchenko > < the few survivors of the brilliant generation of young Englishmen expunged by the first World War — Jack Winocour > < they [enemy soldiers] were just blotted out — Nevil Shute > and to ideas of balancing, offsetting, equaling, nullifying with equal opposing force < the … mixture of races canceling each other's beliefs — T.S.Eliot > < a hideous phrase which no amount of palliation can ever quite obliterate — P.E.More > The semantic extensions may retain nuances of meaning implied in older uses. II. transitive verb : to delete from a computer storage device |
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