Usually means: Remove or eliminate something completely.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word erase:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. erase: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. erase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. erase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. erase: Collins English Dictionary
  5. erase: Vocabulary.com
  6. Erase, erase: Wordnik
  7. erase: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. erase: Wiktionary
  9. erase: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. erase: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. erase: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. erase: Dictionary.com
  13. erase: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. erase: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Erase (album), Erase (disambiguation), Erase: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Erase: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. erase: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. erase: Rhymezone
  19. erase: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. erase: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. erase: Free Dictionary
  22. erase: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. erase: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. erase: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. erase: Legal dictionary
  3. Erase: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. erase: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. erase: CCI Computer
  3. erase: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ERASE: Acronym Finder
  2. erase: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. erase: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. erase: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See erasability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) to remove markings or information
verb:  (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
verb:  (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
verb:  (intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
verb:  (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.
noun:  (computing) The operation of deleting data.

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