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eraser

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹeɪzə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ɪˈɹeɪsɚ/
  • South-Asia: /ɛ~ɪˈresə(r)/
  • rhymes with -eɪzə(ɹ)
  • rhymes with -eɪsə(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: IH0 R EY1 S ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: IY0 R EY1 S ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

One who erases.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An object used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, Philippines, US

Examples

  • I have worn out the eraser on this pencil.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: rubber, india rubber, bungee

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

An object used to erase something written either by chalk on a chalkboard, by a marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, Philippines, US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

An overwriter program used to prevent data recovery.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

an implement used to erase something

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: implement

Narrower terms: blackboard eraser, ink eraser, rubber eraser, rubber, pencil eraser

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English erase Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English eraser From erase + -er.

Across languages

Translations

188 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: uitveër — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Albanian: gomë — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Albanian: llastik — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Southern Altai: ӧчӱргиш (öčürgiš) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Amharic: ላጲስ (lap̣is) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Arabic: مِمْحَاة (mimḥāh) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Arabic: مَسَّاحَة (massāḥa) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Arabic: مَحَّايَة (maḥḥāya) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Arabic: أَسْتِيكَة (ʔastīka) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Arabic: مَسَّاحَة (massāḥa) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Arabic: مَحَّاية (maḥḥāya) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Arabic: ممحة (mimḥa) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܵܝܘܿܦܬܵܐ (šāyōptā) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Armenian: ռետին (ṙetin) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Azerbaijani: pozan — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Bashkir: юйғыс (yuyğıs) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Basque: ezabagoma — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Belarusian: гу́мка (húmka) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Belarusian: ла́сцік (láscik) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Bengali: রবার (robar) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Bengali: গাম (gam) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Bulgarian: гу́ма за трие́не (gúma za triéne) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Bulgarian: гу́ма (gúma) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Bulgarian: гу́мичка (gúmička) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Burmese: ခဲဖျက် (hkai:hpyak) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Burmese: ဖော့ဖျက် (hpau.hpyak) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Catalan: goma — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Catalan: goma d'esborrar — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Chinese Cantonese: 擦膠 /擦胶 (caat3 gaau1) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Chinese Cantonese: 膠擦 /胶擦 (gaau1 caat3) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Chinese Cantonese: 擦紙膠 /擦纸胶 (caat3 zi2 gaau1) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Chinese Mandarin: 橡皮 (xiàngpí) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Chinese Mandarin: 橡皮擦子 (xiàngpí cāzi) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Chinese Mandarin: 橡皮擦 (xiàngpícā) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Czech: guma — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Czech: zmizík — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Danish: viskelæder — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Dutch: gom — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Dutch: gum — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Elfdalian: sudd — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Elfdalian: gnuk — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Esperanto: skrapgumo — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Estonian: kustutuskumm — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Estonian: kustukumm — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Faroese: viskileður — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Faroese: viskuleður — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Finnish: pyyhekumi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Finnish: kumi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • French: gomme — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • French: effaceur — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • French: efface — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Galician: goma — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Georgian: საშლელი (sašleli) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • German: Radiergummi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • German: Radierer — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • German: Gummi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Greek: γομολάστιχα (gomolásticha) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Greenlandic: piiaat — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Gujarati: છેકણી (chekṇī) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Hebrew: מַחַק (mákhak) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Hindi: रबड़ (rabaṛ) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Hindi: रबर (rabar) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Hindi: खुरचनी (khuracnī) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Hungarian: radír — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Hungarian: radírgumi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Hungarian: gumi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Icelandic: strokleður — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Ido: efacilo — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Indonesian: penghapus — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Irish: scriosán — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Italian: gomma — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Japanese: 消しゴム (keshigomu) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Kabuverdianu: buraxa — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Kalmyk: биллүр (billür) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Kapampangan: pangbura — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Kazakh: өшіргіш (öşırgış) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Khmer: ជ័រលុប (cɔə lup) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Korean: 지우개 (jiugae) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Northern Kurdish: jêbir — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Kyrgyz: өчүргүч (öcürgüc) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Lao: ຢາງລຶບ (yāng lưp) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Lao: ແປງລຶບກະດານ (pǣng lưp ka dān) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Latvian: dzēšgumija — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Lithuanian: trintukas — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Luxembourgish: Gummi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Macedonian: гума (guma) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Malay: pemadam — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Malay: getah pemadam — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Maltese: gomma — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Māori: muku — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Marathi: खोडरबर (khoḍarbar) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Marathi: रबर (rabar) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Mongolian: баллуур (balluur) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Navajo: bee kʼééʼálchxǫǫhí — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: viskelær — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: viskelêr — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Pashto: پنسل پاک (pensel pāk) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Dari: پِنْسِلپَاک (pinsil-pāk) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Iranian Persian: پاککُن (pâk-kon) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Iranian Persian: مِدادْپاککُن (medâdpâk-kon) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Polish: gumka — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Portuguese: borracha — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Portuguese: safa — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Quechua: qillqa pichana — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Rohingya: búzoni — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Romanian: radieră — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Romanian: gumă de șters — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Romansh: gumma — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Russian: рези́нка (rezínka) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Russian: ла́стик (lástik) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Russian: стёрка (stjórka) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Russian: стира́тельная рези́нка (stirátelʹnaja rezínka) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Russian: стира́лка (stirálka) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Russian: стира́шка (stiráška) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Serbo-Croatian: гу̏мица — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Serbo-Croatian: gȕmica — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Slovak: guma — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Slovene: radirka — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Lower Sorbian: guma — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Lower Sorbian: raděrowak — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Upper Sorbian: drapak — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Upper Sorbian: gumij — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Spanish: borrador — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Spanish: goma de borrar — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Spanish: borra — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Swahili: kifutio — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Swedish: suddgummi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Swedish: radergummi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Swedish: sudd — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Tagalog: pambura — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Tagalog: pamahi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Tajik: хаткуркунак (xatkurkunak) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Tajik: хаткӯркунак (xatkürkunak) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Tamil: ரப்பர் (rappar) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Thai: ยางลบ (yaang-lóp) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Tigrinya: መደምሰስ (mädämsäs) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Turkish: silgi — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Turkmen: bozguç — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Ukrainian: гу́мка (húmka) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Ukrainian: ґу́мка (gúmka) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Urdu: رَبَڑ (rabaṛ) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Urdu: کُھرَچْنی (khuracnī) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Uyghur: سۈرتكۈچ (sürtküch) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Uyghur: ئۆچۈرگۈچ (öchürgüch) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Uzbek: oʻchirgʻich — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Uzbek: oʻchirgich — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Uzbek: lastik — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Vietnamese: cái tẩy — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Vietnamese: cục gôm — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Vietnamese: tẩy chì — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Volapük: radagumot — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Welsh: rwber — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Yami: ipangongopas — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Yiddish: מעקער (meker) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Yiddish: גומקע (gumke) — thing used to erase something written or drawn
  • Arabic: مِمْحَاة (mimḥāh) — chalkboard eraser
  • Bashkir: юйғыс (yuyğıs) — chalkboard eraser
  • Bulgarian: гъ́ба за дъска́ (gǎ́ba za dǎská) — chalkboard eraser
  • Bulgarian: гъ́ба (gǎ́ba) — chalkboard eraser
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黑板擦 (hēibǎncā) — chalkboard eraser
  • Chinese Mandarin: 板擦 (bǎncā) — chalkboard eraser
  • Danish: tavlesvamp — chalkboard eraser
  • Esperanto: tabulviŝilo — chalkboard eraser
  • Esperanto: viŝilo — chalkboard eraser
  • Esperanto: tabulspongo — chalkboard eraser
  • Esperanto: spongo — chalkboard eraser
  • Esperanto: tabultuko — chalkboard eraser
  • Finnish: taulusieni — chalkboard eraser
  • French: brosse à tableau — chalkboard eraser
  • French: gomme — chalkboard eraser
  • Galician: borrador — chalkboard eraser
  • German: Tafelschwamm — chalkboard eraser
  • Gujarati: છેકણી (chekṇī) — chalkboard eraser
  • Hungarian: táblatörlő — chalkboard eraser
  • Ido: efacilo — chalkboard eraser
  • Indonesian: penghapus papan tulis — chalkboard eraser
  • Italian: cancellino — chalkboard eraser
  • Japanese: 黒板消し (kokubankeshi) — chalkboard eraser
  • Japanese: 黒板拭き (kokubanfuki) — chalkboard eraser
  • Māori: muku papatuhituhi — chalkboard eraser
  • Portuguese: apagador — chalkboard eraser
  • Romanian: burete — chalkboard eraser
  • Russian: тря́пка (trjápka) — chalkboard eraser
  • Spanish: borrador — chalkboard eraser
  • Swedish: tavelsudd — chalkboard eraser
  • Turkish: tahta silgisi — chalkboard eraser
  • Ottoman Turkish: منجل (mincel) — chalkboard eraser
  • Finnish: pyyhintäohjelma — overwriter program