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Erase vs Repeal - What's the difference?

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Erase is a related term of repeal.


In lang=en terms the difference between erase and repeal

is that erase is to disregard (a group, an orientation, etc); to prevent from having an active role in society while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.

As verbs the difference between erase and repeal

is that erase is to remove markings or information while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.

As a noun repeal is

an act or instance of repealing.

erase

English

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.

    Derived terms

    * eraser * unerase * erasable * unerasable

    Related terms

    * erasure

    Antonyms

    * (remove markings or information) record

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    repeal

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
    • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
    • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.

    • Anagrams

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