erase

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• Canada, General-American: /i-/
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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹeɪz/
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• rhymes with -eɪz
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• rhymes with -eɪs
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• CMU ARPABET: IH0 R EY1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: IY0 R EY1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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 English dilegian.

153 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: fshi — to remove markings or information
• Arabic: مَحَا (maḥā) — to remove markings or information
• Arabic: مَحَى (maḥā) — to remove markings or information
• Arabic: محى (maḥa) — to remove markings or information
• Arabic: محى (mḥa) — to remove markings or information
• Bashkir: юйыу (yuyıw) — to remove markings or information
• Belarusian: сціра́ць (scirácʹ) — to remove markings or information
• Belarusian: сце́рці (scjérci) — to remove markings or information
• Bulgarian: изтривам (iztrivam) — to remove markings or information
• Catalan: esborrar — to remove markings or information
• Cherokee: ᎠᏲᏍᏙᏗ (ayosdodi) — to remove markings or information
• Chinese Mandarin: 拭除 (shìchú) — to remove markings or information
• Chinese Mandarin: 抹去 (mǒqù) — to remove markings or information
• Chinese Mandarin: 擦去 (cāqù) — to remove markings or information
• Czech: smazat — to remove markings or information
• Czech: vymazat — to remove markings or information
• Danish: slette — to remove markings or information
• Danish: viske — to remove markings or information
• Danish: fjerne — to remove markings or information
• Dutch: uitwissen — to remove markings or information
• Dutch: uitgummen — to remove markings or information
• Esperanto: forigi — to remove markings or information
• Faroese: viska — to remove markings or information
• Finnish: poistaa — to remove markings or information
• Finnish: pyyhkiä yli — to remove markings or information
• French: effacer — to remove markings or information
• German: auslöschen — to remove markings or information
• German: ausradieren — to remove markings or information
• German: löschen — to remove markings or information
• German: tilgen — to remove markings or information
• Greek: σβήνω (svíno) — to remove markings or information
• Hindi: मिटाना (miṭānā) — to remove markings or information
• Hungarian: töröl — to remove markings or information
• Hungarian: kitöröl — to remove markings or information
• Hungarian: kiradíroz — to remove markings or information
• Ido: efacar — to remove markings or information
• Irish: scrios — to remove markings or information
• Italian: cancellare — to remove markings or information
• Italian: eliminare — to remove markings or information
• Japanese: 消す (kesu) — to remove markings or information
• Japanese: 消去する (shōkyo suru) — to remove markings or information
• Khmer: លុប (lup) — to remove markings or information
• Korean: 지우다 (jiuda) — to remove markings or information
• Latin: ērādō — to remove markings or information
• Latin: oblitterō — to remove markings or information
• Lithuanian: trinti — to remove markings or information
• Macedonian: избрише (izbriše) — to remove markings or information
• Malay: memadamkan — to remove markings or information
• Malayalam: മായ്ക്കുക (māykkuka) — to remove markings or information
• Maltese: maħħa — to remove markings or information
• Māori: muku — to remove markings or information
• Māori: kōmuru — to remove markings or information
• Māori: ūkui — to remove markings or information
• Marathi: खोडणे (khoḍṇe) — to remove markings or information
• Norwegian Bokmål: slette — to remove markings or information
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjerne — to remove markings or information
• Norwegian Bokmål: radere — to remove markings or information
• Norwegian Bokmål: radere ut — to remove markings or information
• Norwegian Bokmål: radere bort — to remove markings or information
• Norwegian Bokmål: radere vekk — to remove markings or information
• Norwegian Bokmål: viske — to remove markings or information
• Old English: dilegian — to remove markings or information
• Polish: wymazywać — to remove markings or information
• Polish: wymazać — to remove markings or information
• Polish: ścierać — to remove markings or information
• Polish: zetrzeć — to remove markings or information
• Portuguese: apagar — to remove markings or information
• Romanian: șterge — to remove markings or information
• Russian: стира́ть (stirátʹ) — to remove markings or information
• Russian: стере́ть (sterétʹ) — to remove markings or information
• Scottish Gaelic: dubh às — to remove markings or information
• Scottish Gaelic: dubh a-mach — to remove markings or information
• Slovak: vymazávať — to remove markings or information
• Slovak: vymazať — to remove markings or information
• Spanish: borrar — to remove markings or information
• Swedish: radera — to remove markings or information
• Swedish: utplåna — to remove markings or information
• Tagalog: bura — to remove markings or information
• Tagalog: burahin — to remove markings or information
• Tamil: அழி (aḻi) — to remove markings or information
• Turkish: silmek — to remove markings or information
• Ottoman Turkish: قازیمق (kazımak) — to remove markings or information
• Ukrainian: стира́ти (styráty) — to remove markings or information
• Ukrainian: сте́рти (stérty) — to remove markings or information
• Urdu: مٹانا — to remove markings or information
• Vietnamese: xóa — to remove markings or information
• Yiddish: מעקן (mekn) — to remove markings or information
• Yiddish: אויסמעקן (oysmekn) — to remove markings or information
• Albanian: fshi — to obliterate information
• Bashkir: юйыу (yuyıw) — to obliterate information
• Bulgarian: изтривам (iztrivam) — to obliterate information
• Czech: smazat — to obliterate information
• Czech: vymazat — to obliterate information
• Danish: slette — to obliterate information
• Esperanto: viŝi — to obliterate information
• Finnish: pyyhkiä — to obliterate information
• French: effacer — to obliterate information
• German: vernichten — to obliterate information
• German: löschen — to obliterate information
• Greek: σβήνω (svíno) — to obliterate information
• Hungarian: töröl — to obliterate information
• Hungarian: letöröl — to obliterate information
• Hungarian: kitöröl — to obliterate information
• Irish: glan — to obliterate information
• Italian: cancellare — to obliterate information
• Japanese: 抹消する (masshō suru) — to obliterate information
• Latin: oblitterō — to obliterate information
• Māori: muku — to obliterate information
• Māori: kōmuru — to obliterate information
• Māori: ūkui — to obliterate information
• Portuguese: apagar — to obliterate information
• Russian: стира́ть (stirátʹ) — to obliterate information
• Russian: стере́ть (sterétʹ) — to obliterate information
• Scottish Gaelic: dubh às — to obliterate information
• Spanish: borrar — to obliterate information
• Swedish: radera — to obliterate information
• Swedish: utplåna — to obliterate information
• Ottoman Turkish: قازیمق (kazımak) — to obliterate information
• Bashkir: юйыу (yuyıw) — to clear a storage medium
• Bulgarian: изтривам (iztrivam) — to clear a storage medium
• Czech: smazat — to clear a storage medium
• Czech: vymazat — to clear a storage medium
• Danish: slette — to clear a storage medium
• Esperanto: viŝi — to clear a storage medium
• Faroese: strika — to clear a storage medium
• Finnish: pyyhkiä — to clear a storage medium
• Finnish: poistaa — to clear a storage medium
• French: effacer — to clear a storage medium
• German: löschen — to clear a storage medium
• German: leeren — to clear a storage medium
• German: reinigen — to clear a storage medium
• Hungarian: töröl — to clear a storage medium
• Hungarian: letöröl — to clear a storage medium
• Irish: léirscrios — to clear a storage medium
• Māori: kōmuru — to clear a storage medium
• Portuguese: excluir — to clear a storage medium
• Portuguese: deletar — to clear a storage medium
• Russian: стира́ть (stirátʹ) — to clear a storage medium
• Russian: стере́ть (sterétʹ) — to clear a storage medium
• Scottish Gaelic: dubh às — to clear a storage medium
• Scottish Gaelic: dubh a-mach — to clear a storage medium
• Spanish: borrar — to clear a storage medium
• Swedish: radera — to clear a storage medium
• Turkish: silmek — to clear a storage medium
• Finnish: poistaa — to remove a runner
• German: ausschalten — to remove a runner
• Arabic: اِمَّحَى (immaḥā) — intransitive: to be erased
• Arabic: اِنْمَحَى (inmaḥā) — intransitive: to be erased
• Bashkir: юйылыу (yuyılıw) — intransitive: to be erased
• Finnish: pyyhkiytyä — intransitive: to be erased
• French: s'effacer — intransitive: to be erased
• Hungarian: törlődik — intransitive: to be erased
• Spanish: borrarse — intransitive: to be erased