erase, wipe out
(verb) remove from memory or existence; “The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915”
erase, delete
(verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; “Who erased the files from my hard disk?”
erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe off
(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
erase (third-person singular simple present erases, present participle erasing, simple past and past participle erased)
(transitive) to remove markings or information
(transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
(transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
(transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
(intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
(transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
(transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.
• (remove markings or information): record
erase (plural erases)
(computing) The operation of deleting data.
• eares, easer, saree
Source: Wiktionary
E*rase", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Erased; p. pr. & vb. n.. Erasing.] Etym: [L. erasus, p. p. of eradere to erase; e out + radere to scrape, scratch, shave. See Rase.]
1. 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.
2. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
