Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to erase
Participle: erased
Gerund: erasing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | erase |
| you | erase |
| he;she;it | erases |
| we | erase |
| you | erase |
| they | erase |
Perfect
| I | have erased |
| you | have erased |
| he;she;it | has erased |
| we | have erased |
| you | have erased |
| they | have erased |
Past
| I | erased |
| you | erased |
| he;she;it | erased |
| we | erased |
| you | erased |
| they | erased |
Pluperfect
| I | had erased |
| you | had erased |
| he;she;it | had erased |
| we | had erased |
| you | had erased |
| they | had erased |
Future
| I | will erase |
| you | will erase |
| he;she;it | will erase |
| we | will erase |
| you | will erase |
| they | will erase |
Future Perfect
| I | will have erased |
| you | will have erased |
| he;she;it | will have erased |
| we | will have erased |
| you | will have erased |
| they | will have erased |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | erase |
| you | erase |
| he;she;it | erase |
| we | erase |
| you | erase |
| they | erase |
Perfect
| I | have erased |
| you | have erased |
| he;she;it | have erased |
| we | have erased |
| you | have erased |
| they | have erased |
Imperfect
| I | erased |
| you | erased |
| he;she;it | erased |
| we | erased |
| you | erased |
| they | erased |
Pluperfect
| I | had erased |
| you | had erased |
| he;she;it | had erased |
| we | had erased |
| you | had erased |
| they | had erased |
Conditional
Present
| I | would erase |
| you | would erase |
| he;she;it | would erase |
| we | would erase |
| you | would erase |
| they | would erase |
Perfect
| I | would have erased |
| you | would have erased |
| he;she;it | would have erased |
| we | would have erased |
| you | would have erased |
| they | would have erased |
Imperative
| you | erase |
| we | Let's erase |
| you | erase |
Verbs conjugated like 'erase'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'erase'
crase,
ease,
rase,
abase,
abrase,
acrase,
aerate,
arace,
arage,
araise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
- benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, fuck, jazz, liquidate, nuke, pull down, ravage, remove, destroy, total, wipe off, wreck
- to remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material
- blue-pencil, cancel, clear, cross out, eliminate, exclude, expunge, obliterate, remove, rub out, score, scrap, scratch, scrub, squelch, strike, strike out, terminate, delete
- efface
- cancel, eradicate, annul, black, expunge
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1605, from L. erasus, pp. of eradere "scrape out," from ex- "out" + radere "to scrape" (see rodent). Of magnetic tape, from 1945. Eraser "thing that erases writing" is 1790, in Amer.Eng.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
4. Proto-Indo-European *-s
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
6. Proto-Italic *eks
7. Latin ex
8. Latin ex-
9. Proto-Italic *razdō
10. Latin radō
11. Latin ērādō
12. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
13. Proto-Italic *-tos
14. Latin -tus
15. Latin ērāsusder.
16. English erase
17. From Latin ērāsus, past participle of ērādere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.
Sample Sentences
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I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.
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I'm going to erase this tape.
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I'm going to erase those files.
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Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
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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. [2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:]
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The chalkboard erased easily.
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The files will erase quickly.
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I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality. [1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out:]
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As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse. [2004, Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones, page 209:]
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Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities. [2011, Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies, page 40:]