erase
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
remove from memory or existence
The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Related & opposite
- expunction derivation
- wipeout derivation
Sense 2 verb
remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
Types & categories
- delete hypernym
- sponge hyponym
- scratch out hyponym
Related & opposite
- expunction derivation
- eraser derivation
- erasure derivation
- erasure derivation
- rub entails
Sense 3 verb
wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
Who erased the files form my hard disk?
Types & categories
- take away hypernym
- demagnetize hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | expunction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | wipeout |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | expunction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | eraser |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | erasure |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | erasure |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | rub |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | delete |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sponge |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | scratch out |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | record |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | eraser |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | recording |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | take away |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | demagnetize |