(~s, erasing, ~d)
1.
If you ~ a thought or feeling, you destroy it completely so that you can no longer remember something or no longer feel a particular emotion.
They are desperate to ~ the memory of that last defeat in Cardiff...
Love was a word he’d ~d from his vocabulary since Susan’s going.
VERB: V n, V n from n
2.
If you ~ sound which has been recorded on a tape or information which has been stored in a computer, you completely remove or destroy it.
He was in the studio tearfully erasing all the tapes he’d slaved over...
It appears the names were accidentally ~d from computer disks.
= wipe
VERB: V n, be V-ed from n, also V n from n
3.
If you ~ something such as writing or a mark, you remove it, usually by rubbing it with a cloth.
It was unfortunate that she had ~d the message.
= rub out
VERB: V n