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Meanings of ERASE in English

Portuguese
deletar
Catalan
esborrar
Spanish
borrar

Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing.

      deletar
      Portuguese
      matar
      Catalan
      esborrar
      Spanish
      liquidar

      Remove from memory or existence.

            matar
            Synonyms
            Examples for "wipe out"
            Examples for "wipe out"
            1
            A losing stock market turn could also wipe out years of savings.
            BBC
            2
            Ortega said Colombia's government should not try to wipe out the FARC.
            Reuters
            3
            Vaccination is the world's best hope to completely wipe out Covid 19.
            Radio NZ
            4
            One does not wipe out the devotion of years in a moment.
            The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo
            5
            And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.
            Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
            Usage of ERASE in English
            1
            It's an attitudinal problem that time alone would of course help erase.
            The Irish Times
            2
            They erase our memory of grassroots power, direct democracy and civil society.
            The Guardian
            3
            Poland was erased from the map of Europe for some 125 years.
            The Irish Times
            4
            Someone's done a good job erasing records and back-ups from Companies House.
            Pack animals
            5
            Epigenetic information is frequently erased near the start of each new generation.
            Pubmed
            6
            I'm hoping the intervening seconds will have erased his dangerous thought process.
            Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
            7
            It suddenly occurred to him, horrifyingly: could the entire sea be erased?
            Assail
            8
            Kaczynski had not considered that a future technology would erase his deeds.
            Engineering Infinity
            9
            But Obama's Afghanistan troop increase is likely to erase those cost savings.
            Reuters
            10
            It also said it planned to erase losses at its transport division.
            Reuters
            11
            But the friendship couldn't quite erase vast differences in background and education.
            The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a...
            12
            Key U.S. stock indexes erased early losses to trade with modest gains.
            Reuters
            13
            Technology hadn't erased urban blight, it had been used to create it!
            Time After Time
            14
            Bush has managed to erase D's substantial lead of earlier this summer.
            The new yorker
            15
            National MP Simeon Brown said removing statues like this was erasing history.
            Radio NZ
            16
            Some of Hong Kong's losses were erased after China markets regained momentum.
            Reuters
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            Translations for ERASE
            ERASE through the time
            ERASE across language varieties
            United States of America
            Common
            Ireland
            Common
            United Kingdom
            Less common