Definition of Erase

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Definition of Erase

Erase

To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.

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Erase Quotations

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. Wilson

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
Jennifer Lopez

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
Luis Bunuel

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.
Todd Barry

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.
Rafael Palmeiro

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.
Joe Henderson

Erase Translations

erase in Dutch is gommen, met gom bestrijken
erase in Italian is estinguere, verniciare
erase in Latin is deleo
erase in Norwegian is stryke ut
erase in Portuguese is apague
erase in Spanish is extinguir, raspar, cancelar
erase in Swedish is radera

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