verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
deficit
▪
But the Clippers nearly erased that deficit as they trailed 56-53 when Barry hit a 3-pointer to start the third quarter.
▪
A marvelous comeback, erasing a 24-point deficit against the two-time defending world champions.
memory
▪
Although such incidents rankled, the cutter crews' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories .
▪
They badly needed to get off strong Sunday to erase that memory .
▪
The answer is always to erase everything from memory pertaining to previous projects.
▪
How much else had he forgotten: Did hibernation erase memory ?
▪
Five years can change opinions; ten years can erase memories .
▪
Might not a murderer, she wondered, erase the memory of the deed?
▪
So why couldn't she erase from her memory the image of fitzAlan, tall and strong and golden in the firelight?
▪
He must so dearly have wished the first two sets could have been instantly erased from memory .
mind
▪
She was absorbed in the primitive ritual of the hunt and work was erased from her mind .
■ VERB
press
▪
Then press Del to erase the Field and Word entries for key 2. 11.
try
▪
And then ceased trying to erase the distance between them.
▪
On another front, Farrakhan met last week with 10 Phoenix area business and community leaders to try to erase misunderstandings.
▪
For those who could not laugh, the best remedy might be to try to erase the whole subject from their minds.
▪
Do not try to erase anything as remote from basic-basic as birth unless the file clerk insists on presenting birth.
▪
Would it be like this, now with him, whom she was trying to erase .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Be sure to completely erase any incorrect answer.
▪
Ben erased one of my favorite tapes.
▪
Is there any way I can erase this videotape so no one will see what's on it?
▪
Somehow the magnets had erased the entire cassette.
▪
The fall of the Berlin Wall erased the border between the two Germanys.
▪
Today's rise in prices erases yesterday's losses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Again, there is a vast discrepancy between the top and bottom that is erased within this ideology of flexibility.
▪
But those painful memories are erased by thoughts of future glory as Jodami whisks Anthea across the moorland gallops.
▪
Of course the text itself hadn't literally all been erased.
▪
Some businesses are attaching electronic copyright stamps to their work, and the bill would make erasing these stamps illegal.
▪
Telecommunications could erase all these indicators of rurality.
▪
Thus Experience has an undulating, open-ended form, something like a notebook whose pagination has been erased.