Mutilate vs Erase - What's the difference?
mutilate | erase |
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
To destroy beyond recognition.
(figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.
(obsolete) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
(zoology) Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.
(Webster 1913)
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)
As verbs the difference between mutilate and erase
is that mutilate is to physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb while erase is to remove markings or information.As an adjective mutilate
is deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.mutilate
English
Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* maim * mangleDerived terms
* mutilation * mutilative * mutilatorSee also
* amputate, amputation * castrate, castration * circumcise, circumcisionAdjective
(-)- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Alternative forms
* (abbreviation)Anagrams
* ----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.