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.

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To vanish.

(label) To make vanish.

* {{quote-book, year=1973, author=Joseph Heller, chapter=38 Kid Sister

, title= Catch 22: A Dramatization , genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}

(label) To go away; to become lost.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}