Erase vs Deface - What's the difference?
erase | deface |
to remove markings or information
To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
(baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
To be erased .
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
* 2004 , Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones (page 209)
* 2011 , Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies (page 40)
To damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
* 1869:
To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
* 1776:
(heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
As verbs the difference between erase and deface
is that erase is to remove markings or information while deface is to damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.erase
English
Verb
(eras)- I erased that note because it was wrong.
- I'm going to erase this tape.
- I'm going to erase those files.
- Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
- The chalkboard erased easily.
- Her painful memories seemingly erased completely.
- The files will erase quickly.
- I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.
- As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.
- Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.
Derived terms
* eraser * unerase * erasable * unerasableAntonyms
* (remove markings or information) recordAnagrams
* English ergative verbs ----deface
English
Verb
(defac)- That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.
- He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.
- One-and-twenty worn and defaced' shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and ' defaced too, but seldom so much so.
- You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.