ERASE Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

erase

verb

i-ˈrās

Definition of erase

as in to eradicate

to destroy all traces of an effort to save the species from being erased from this earth

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Recent Examples of erase My father was trying to erase the distance between the audience and the story. — Scott Waugh, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026 His past misdemeanours will be stains that will never be completely erased, but boxing is a forgiving sport. — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026 From my first time using it, the mask made my face so soft and even erased my blemishes. — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026 Success did not erase the deprivation so much as give him the means to overcorrect for it. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for erase

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The team has eradicated every invasive casuarina pine, the Australian import whose needles poison the native plants beneath it, along with invasive sea grapes that chew up the dunes.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
Screwworm had been considered eradicated from the US, Mexico and most of Central America decades ago.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is vowing to abolish California’s DMV and cap annual vehicle registration at $73, framing the proposal as a strike against soaring living costs.

— Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Karishma Manzur, a medical scientist and first-time candidate, supported Medicare for All and abolishing ICE while declining money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.

— Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

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After Israel destroyed Jenin refugee camp during the Second Intifada in 2002, a young girl looked into Mohammad Bakri’s camera and said that Palestinians would live proudly as eagles and die standing like lions.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
That’s because key refineries that produce it have been knocked offline or destroyed, both in Eastern Europe — where the Ukraine-Russia war still rages — and in the Middle East.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026

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