Verb

(label) To obscure.

* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.

(label) To make indecipherable; to obliterate.

* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)

From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out ; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.

(label) To annihilate

* (w) 7.4

And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.

Verb

(eras)

to remove markings or information

I erased that note 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.

(baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play

Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.

To be erased .

The chalkboard erased easily.

Her painful memories seemingly erased completely.

The files will erase quickly.

To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.

* 1998 , Janice Lynn Ristock, ?Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out

I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.

* 2004 , Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones (page 209)

As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.

* 2011 , Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies (page 40)

Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.