When you erase something, you eliminate or delete it, often by physically wiping it out. It's easy to erase chalk from a blackboard, but not so easy to erase graffiti from the side of a building.
To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out;
Verb
remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
Verb
wipe out magnetically recorded information
Verb
remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
v. t.
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.
v. t.
Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of
ideas in the mind or memory.
Erase
To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out;
Usage Examples
I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.
As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
"These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than ""able-bodied"" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow."
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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