To remove (markings or information).
I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.
To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
I'm going to erase this tape.
To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
I'm going to erase those files.
The operation of deleting data.
This subsystem is waiting to become Exclusive after having issued an erase.
From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old ...
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