# erase
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭ-rāzʹ, IPA: /ɪˈɹeɪz/
* (US) enPR: ĭ-rāsʹ, IPA: /ɪˈɹeɪs/
* (Indic) IPA: /eˈɾeːs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪz, -eɪs

### Verb

erase (third-person singular simple present erases, present participle erasing, simple 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.
** 2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time‎:C.J. Henderson has the speed and anticipation to erase receivers all over the field, and his athleticism is absurd; according to Bruce Feldman of The Athletic, Henderson bench presses 380 pounds and squats 545.
* (transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “remove markings or information”): record

#### Derived terms

* dry-erase
* erasability
* erasable
* erasement
* eraser
* nonerasing
* unerasable
* unerase

#### Related terms

* erasure

#### Translations

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### Noun

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.

### Anagrams

* Rease, eares, easer, saree

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

erase
* third-person singular past historic of eradere

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

erase f pl
* feminine plural of eraso

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /eːˈraː.se/, [eːˈräːs̠ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /eˈra.se/, [eˈräːs̬e]

### Participle

ērāse
* vocative masculine singular of ērāsus