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Erase   /ɪrˈeɪs/   Listen
verb
Erase  v. t.  (past & past part. erased; pres. part. erasing)  
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.
2.
Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; used of ideas in the mind or memory.





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"Erase" Quotes from Famous Books



... want to erase any of them. My right arm is nearly disabled by rheumatism, but I am bound to write this book (and sell 100,000 copies of it—no, I mean a million—next fall) I feel sure I can dictate the book into a phonograph if I don't have to yell. I write 2,000 ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... have done it with spirit and eloquence, dear Leontion; and there are but two words in it I would wish you to erase. ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... Dempster drinks more and more, and, drinking, goes from bad to worse. He treats his wife, first with coldness, and then with cruelty. At length comes the dreadful and dramatic scene that readers of the story will never erase from their memories. In a fit of drunken savagery he burst into her room at midnight. He drags her from her bed; pushes her down the stairs and along the hall; and then, opening the front door, he hurls her by sheer brute force out into ...
— A Handful of Stars - Texts That Have Moved Great Minds • Frank W. Boreham
... over the years. They underwent treatment to erase that knowledge from their mind." He stood up and came around the desk to where his son had also risen. "I may not see you again before you leave, Spence ... George, I mean," he smiled ruefully, then brightened. ...
— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans
... discontinuance of the paper on account of matter contained in the first issue, by ten indignant subscribers. "Nevertheless," he adds, "our happiness at the loss of such subscribers is not a whit abated. We beg no man's patronage, and shall ever erase with the same cheerfulness that we insert the name of any individual.... Personal or political offence we shall studiously avoid—truth never." Here was plainly a wholly new species of the genus homo in the editorial ...
— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke


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