Erase

Etymology
From, past participle of , from  +. Compare 🇨🇬,. Displaced.

Verb

 * 1)  to remove markings or information
 * I erased that note because it was wrong.
 * 1)  To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
 * I'm going to erase this tape.
 * 1)  To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
 * I'm going to erase those files.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To be erased have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information.
 * The chalkboard erased easily.
 * The files will erase quickly.
 * 1)  To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 2004, Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones (page 209)
 * As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.
 * 1) * 2011, Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies (page 40)
 * Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.
 * 1)  To kill; assassinate.
 * 1)  To kill; assassinate.

Derived terms




Translations

 * Arabic: مَحَا, مَحَى
 * Egyptian Arabic: محى
 * Moroccan Arabic: محى
 * Belarusian: сціра́ць, сце́рці
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏲᏍᏙᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 擦去
 * Czech:, vymazat
 * Danish:, viske, fjerne
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: viska
 * Finnish:, pyyhkiä yli
 * French:
 * German:, ausradieren,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ido:


 * Irish: scrios
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: ērādō, oblitterō
 * Malay: padam
 * Maltese: maħħa
 * Maori: muku, kōmuru
 * Norwegian:, , radere, radere ut, radere bort, radere vekk,
 * Old English: dilegian
 * Polish: wymazywać, wymazać, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dubh às, dubh a-mach
 * Slovak: vymazávať, vymazať
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: стира́ти, сте́рти
 * Urdu: مٹانا
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, vymazat
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: viŝi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 抹消
 * Maori: muku, kōmuru
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dubh às
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, vymazat
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: viŝi
 * Faroese: strika
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Irish: léirscrios
 * Maori: kōmuru
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dubh às, dubh a-mach
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:


 * Arabic: اِمَّحَى, اِنْمَحَى
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: pyyhkiytyä
 * French:


 * Hungarian: törlődik
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * French:
 * Ido:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:


 * Romanian:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu:
 * Volapük:

Noun

 * 1)  The operation of deleting data.
 * 2) * 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.