erase: Meaning and Definition of

e•rase

1. to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
2. to eliminate completely: She couldn't erase the tragic scene from her memory.
3. to obliterate (material recorded on magnetic tape or a magnetic disk): She erased the message.
4. to obliterate recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk): He accidentally erased the tape.
5. to remove (data) from computer storage.
6. to murder: The gang had to erase him before he informed on them.

1. to give way to effacement readily or easily.
2. to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something.