erase

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ verb [VN]
1 ~ sth (from sth) to remove sth completely: She tried to erase the memory of that evening. + All doubts were suddenly erased from his mind. + You cannot erase injustice from the world.
2 to make a mark or sth 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.
3 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.

Thesaurus dictionary

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v.

1 expunge, rub or scratch or blot or wipe out, delete, cancel, efface, scratch, cross or strike out or off, obliterate:

The scribe erased one line and substituted another.

2 abolish, destroy, obliterate, remove, eliminate, (get) rid of, eradicate, efface:

We erased every trace of evidence that we had been there.

Collocation dictionary

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ADV.

completely | virtually | partially

VERB + ERASE

try to | be determined to

They are determined to erase the bad memories of last year's defeats.

PREP.

from

These people have been virtually erased from the history book.

Concise English dictionary

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erases|erased|erasingɪ'reɪz
verb
+remove from memory or existence
+remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
+wipe out magnetically recorded information