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

(often with at) To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.

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, year=1885 , year_published= , author=James Runciman , title=Grace Balmaign's sweetheart , page=203 citation , passage= The gallant old skipper had struck out with his fist and the blow took effect; "spread the chap's nose all ower his fyesce" as he afterwards said ...}}

(figuratively) To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation.

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, year=1954 , author=Kenneth E. Trombley , title=The life and times of a happy liberal: a biography of Morris Llewellyn Cooke , page=163 citation , passage=... 1937, before the Maryland Farm Bureau Federation, he struck out at his critics. He said: When the Federal Government first undertook to help farmers get ...}}

To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document.

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, year=1787 , year_published=1903 , author=James Madison , title=The Writings of James Madison: 1787. Journal of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 , page=165 citation , passage=Mr. Randolph moved to strike out the words, "each House" and to insert the words, "the House of Representatives" in Sect. 7.}}

(ergative, baseball, softball) Of a batter, to be retired after three strikes (missed swings, as opposed to any other way of becoming "out"); of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter.

Jones struck out on a nasty slider.

The pitcher struck out Jones with a nasty slider.

(intransitive, colloquial, figuratively) To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date.

Dave asked the new girl to the dance but he struck out .

To begin to make one's way.

The travellers struck out towards the line of mountains.