erase
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
erase (erases, present participle erasing; past and past participle erased)
- (transitive) to remove markings or information
- I erased that note because it was wrong.
- (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
- I'm going to erase this tape.
- (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
- I'm going to erase those files.
- (transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
- Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
- (intransitive) To be erased have markings removed, have information removed or be cleared of information.
- The chalkboard erased easily.
- The files will erase quickly.
- (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
- 1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out
- I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.
- 2004, Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones (page 209)
- As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.
- 2011, Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies (page 40)
- Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.
- 1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out
- (transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.
- (remove markings or information) record
- French: effacer
- German: auslöschen, ausradieren, löschen
- Italian: cancellare
- Portuguese: apagar
- Russian: стира́ть
- Spanish: borrar
- French: effacer
- Italian: cancellare
- Portuguese: apagar
- Russian: стира́ть
- Spanish: borrar
- French: s'effacer
- Spanish: borrarse
erase (plural erases)
- (computing) The operation of deleting data.
- 2000, Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture (page 603)
- This subsystem is waiting to become Exclusive after having issued an erase.
- 2000, Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture (page 603)
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