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(v)
(transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
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(transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
(transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
(transitive) To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing, especially with a rubber (eraser).
(transitive, literally) To remove (something such as dirt) by wiping.
To strike out or cross out; to draw a line through one or more written words.
(n)
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
(transitive) To erase or strike out.
(printing, usually imperative) To delete.
The act of deleting.
(transitive) To delete.
removal
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
(transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.
To reverse the effects of an action.
(intransitive) To vanish.
The act or process of making or becoming clear.
(intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
(transitive) To leave (a place).
The act of something that drops or falls.
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
(transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
(intransitive, poetic) To depart; to go to another place.
(adv)
To or on one side so as to be out of the way.
(transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
(transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
(transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
(ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
(gerund) The act of searching through refuse for useful material.
(intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
(transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
(transitive) To lose remembrance of.
To set back to the initial state.
(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
(adj)
Transparent in colour.
A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
(transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
(transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
(transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
(transitive) To clean with water.
(intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
(transitive) To supersede.
A relatively strong, coarse flour that has only been sifted once.
Having been deleted or eliminated; absent from the final version.
Abbreviation of transfer. [(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.]
(transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
(transitive) To obscure.
To remove something which was written, by erasing or by putting a mark through it.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
To cut out; to remove.
To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
(transitive, computing) To remove marks from.
To expunge or erase.
To temporarily lose memory.
(transitive) To remove something that has been recorded.
(transitive) To distinguish.
An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
(transitive, computing) To restore something that has been erased.
The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
(transitive) To remove paint from.
(transitive) To leave out or exclude.
(transitive) To remove documentation about; to cause to be no longer documented or recorded.
To remove or erase with a wiping motion.
(obsolete) To expunge; to erase.
(transitive, intransitive) To remove one's signature from (something one has signed).
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
(transitive) To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
(usually transitive) To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
To erase text that has been typed.
(transitive) To erase; to revert to a state where (something) was never written.
(transitive) To remove from a file or record.
(computing, programming, transitive) To remove a trace from.
(transitive) To make something nonmagnetic by removing its magnetic properties.
(idiomatic, transitive) To strike out (something); to draw a line through (something).
(British spelling) To make something non-magnetic by removing its magnetic properties.
(countable) Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
(transitive) To remove (a part from a machine).
(transitive) To remove; to omit.
(rare, transitive) To undo the act of stamping something; to remove a stamp from.