erase
verb/ɪˈreɪz/
/ɪˈreɪs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they erase | /ɪˈreɪz/ /ɪˈreɪs/ |
| he / she / it erases | /ɪˈreɪzɪz/ /ɪˈreɪsɪz/ |
| past simple erased | /ɪˈreɪzd/ /ɪˈreɪst/ |
| past participle erased | /ɪˈreɪzd/ /ɪˈreɪst/ |
| -ing form erasing | /ɪˈreɪzɪŋ/ /ɪˈreɪsɪŋ/ |
- to remove something completely
- erase something She tried to erase the memory of that evening.
- erase something from something All doubts were suddenly erased from his mind.
- You cannot erase injustice from the world.
Extra Examples- These people have been virtually erased from the history books.
- They are determined to erase the bad memories of last year's defeats.
- This event has been effectively erased from written records.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- fully
- …
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- from
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- erase something to make a mark or something you have written disappear, for example by rubbing it, especially in order to correct it
- He had erased the wrong word.
- All the phone numbers had been erased.
- The tide had erased the footprints.
- erase something to remove a recording from a tape or information from a computer’s memory
- Parts of the recording have been erased.
- He had erased more than 5 000 files from the memory of his computer.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- fully
- …
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- from
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally as a heraldic term meaning ‘represent the head or limb of an animal with a jagged edge’): from Latin eras- ‘scraped away’, from the verb eradere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + radere ‘scrape’.
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