especially: a device (such as a piece of rubber or a felt pad) used to erase marks (as of ink or chalk)
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Nostalgia was for the Smurfs, for erasers that smelled like strawberries.—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 19 June 2026 These particles range in size from 5 millimeters, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, to 1 nanometer - for reference, a single strand of human hair is about 80,000 nanometers wide.—Lisa Emili, The Conversation, 16 June 2026 He's credited with putting erasers on the end of pencils.—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 Julie, who'd received an MFA at USC, who'd written her thesis on Moon, and has inch-long, pencil-eraser nipples that exactly resemble her mother's.—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for eraser