Synonyms for erase

verb

1. To rub or wipe out

   delete, cancel, obliterate, expunge, efface, eradicate; see also cancel 1.

2. *To kill

   murder, slay, dispatch; see kill 1.

erase implies a scraping or rubbing out of something written or drawn, or figuratively, the removal of an impression; to expunge is to remove or wipe out completely; efface implies a rubbing out from a surface, and, in extended use, suggests a destroying of the distinguishing marks, or even of the very existence, of something; obliterate implies a thorough blotting out of something so that all visible traces of it are removed; delete implies the marking of written or printed matter for removal, or the removal of the matter itself