<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.</li><li>Synonyms: obliterate, expunge</li><li>Antonyms: restore</li><li>to eliminate completely: She couldn't erase the tragic scene from her memory.</li><li>to obliterate (material recorded on magnetic tape or a magnetic disk): She erased the message.</li><li>Antonyms: restore</li><li>to obliterate recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk): He accidentally erased the tape.</li><li>Computers: to remove (data) from computer storage.</li><li>to exclude, replace, or refuse to recognize (the identity, experience, or contribution of a minority group or group member): whitewash.</li><li>Slang: to murder: The gang had to erase him before he informed on them.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to give way to effacement readily or easily.</li><li>to obliterate characters, letters, markings, etc., from something.</li></ul>