erase

Meanings

Verb

• remove from memory or existence
  • "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
• remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
  • "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
• wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
  • "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"

Synonyms

delete, efface, rub out, score out, wipe off, wipe out

Antonyms

record