Another word for erase
erase
v.
To rub or wipe out
delete, cancel, obliterate, expunge, efface, eradicate; see also cancel 1.
*To kill
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
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Another word for erase
To remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean:
annul, blot (out), cancel, cross (off or out), delete, efface, expunge, obliterate, rub (out), scratch (out), strike (out), undo, wipe (out), x (out). (Law) vacate. See continueTo destroy all traces of:
abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill1, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root1 (out or up), rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out. Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See help, make
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