Erasing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Erase \E*rase"\ ([-e]*r[=a]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Erased}
     ([-e]*r[=a]st"); p. pr. & vb. n.. {Erasing}.] [L. erasus, p.
     p. of eradere to erase; e out + radere to scrape, scratch,
     shave. See {Rase}.]
     1. 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.
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     2. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of
        ideas in the mind or memory. --Burke.
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