erase

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb remove from memory or existence
  2. verb remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
  3. verb wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

Etymology

From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.

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Synonyms

wipe out

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