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Meanings of
ERASE
in English
Portuguese
deletar
Catalan
esborrar
Spanish
borrar
Back to the meaning
Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing.
delete
efface
rub out
score out
wipe off
record
Portuguese
deletar
Portuguese
matar
Catalan
esborrar
Spanish
liquidar
Back to the meaning
Remove from memory or existence.
wipe out
Portuguese
matar
Synonyms
Examples for "
delete
"
delete
efface
rub out
score out
wipe off
Examples for "
delete
"
1
They make suggestions,
delete
words and sentences, change character names and locations.
2
As soon as they're done with their work, just
delete
their key.
3
I wish I could move and
delete
multiple words at a time.
4
You don't have creative power over words unless you can
delete
them.
5
In extreme cases, they might need to
delete
its entire hard drive.
1
His general demeanour tends to
efface
his foreign descent from the mind.
2
No amount of scrubbing could quite
efface
the traces of the catastrophe.
3
These advantages have often been enough to
efface
every idea of danger.
4
Your celebrity will
efface
that of the Montargis and St. Bernard heroes.
5
Hetty, who divined it, went the swiftest way to
efface
the memory.
1
Rowan pretended to
rub
out
an invisible water spot from the sink.
2
In this country, rubber was used only to
rub
out
pencil marks.
3
Even complete understanding would not help him to
rub
out
these markings.
4
You're now out to
rub
out
whatever trace of originality I have.
5
I would rather
rub
out
than rust out, if that be all.
1
But the Bengals' defense held helping them put the
score
out
of reach.
2
Based on people's responses, each politician then received a
score
out
of 100.
3
I gave their answers a
score
out
of five for transparency and accountability.
4
Or get a clean off-the-top lineout 40 metres out and
score
out
wide.
5
The game turned feisty in the final minutes with the
score
out
of reach.
1
If able to
wipe
off
their debts sooner, they can do so.
2
Sweep the floor,
wipe
off
the tops of the tables and chairs.
3
I
wipe
off
a sheen of sweat already gathered on my face.
4
The Power of Powder: Use baby powder to
wipe
off
sand!
5
Great preparations were made in England, in order to
wipe
off
this disgrace.
Usage of
ERASE
in English
1
It's an attitudinal problem that time alone would of course help
erase
.
2
They
erase
our memory of grassroots power, direct democracy and civil society.
3
Poland was
erased
from the map of Europe for some 125 years.
4
Someone's done a good job
erasing
records and back-ups from Companies House.
5
Epigenetic information is frequently
erased
near the start of each new generation.
6
I'm hoping the intervening seconds will have
erased
his dangerous thought process.
7
It suddenly occurred to him, horrifyingly: could the entire sea be
erased
?
8
Kaczynski had not considered that a future technology would
erase
his deeds.
9
But Obama's Afghanistan troop increase is likely to
erase
those cost savings.
10
It also said it planned to
erase
losses at its transport division.
11
But the friendship couldn't quite
erase
vast differences in background and education.
12
Key U.S. stock indexes
erased
early losses to trade with modest gains.
13
Technology hadn't
erased
urban blight, it had been used to create it!
14
Bush has managed to
erase
D's substantial lead of earlier this summer.
15
National MP Simeon Brown said removing statues like this was
erasing
history.
16
Some of Hong Kong's losses were
erased
after China markets regained momentum.
Other examples for "ERASE"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
erase
Noun
Singular
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
erase from
erase the memory
dry erase
erase all traces
erase most
More collocations
Translations for
ERASE
Portuguese
deletar
apagar
matar
Catalan
esborrar
eliminar
anul·lar
suprimir
ratllar
passar ratlla
Spanish
borrar
suprimir
anular
liquidar
ERASE
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ERASE
across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common