erase

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Related topics: Computers

1 TDto remove information from a computer memory or recorded sounds from a tape 删除〔计算机文件〕；抹去〔磁带录音〕

The computer crashed, and all our records were erased.

计算机瘫痪了，我们所有的记录都被删除了。

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2 REMOVEto remove writing from paper 擦掉，抹掉〔文字〕

Some of the names had been accidentally erased.

有几个名字无意中被擦掉了。

3 REMOVEto get rid of something so that it has gone completely and no longer exists 消除，消灭

Their dream is to erase poverty and injustice from the world.

他们的梦想是消除世上的贫困和不公。

erase something from your mind/memory

He couldn’t erase the image from his mind.

他无法忘却那个画面。

She had tried to erase the memory of that day.

她试图忘记那天的事情。

Examples from the Corpus

erase• Thus Experience has an undulating, open-ended form, something like a notebook whose pagination has been erased.• Of course the text itself hadn't literally all been erased.• Telecommunications could erase all these indicators of rurality.• Be sure to completely erase any incorrect answer.• But those painful memories are erased by thoughts of future glory as Jodami whisks Anthea across the moorland gallops.• Ben erased one of my favorite tapes.• The fall of the Berlin Wall erased the border between the two Germanys.• Somehow the magnets had erased the entire cassette.• Some businesses are attaching electronic copyright stamps to their work, and the bill would make erasing these stamps illegal.• Is there any way I can erase this videotape so no one will see what's on it?• Again, there is a vast discrepancy between the top and bottom that is erased within this ideology of flexibility.• Today's rise in prices erases yesterday's losses.

erase something from your mind/memory• After the rape, I just wanted to erase it from my mind.

From Longman Business Dictionary

erasee·rase /ɪˈreɪzɪˈreɪs/ verb [transitiveT]

COMPUTINGif you erase information on a computer, you remove itSYN delete

—erasure noun [countableC, uncountableU]

Origin erase

(1500-1600) Latin past participle of eradere, from radere “to rub roughly, scrape”

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