Thesaurus / erase
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The shaman is frequently seen correcting the workmen and making them erase and revise their work.
THE MOUNTAIN CHANT, A NAVAJO CEREMONYWASHINGTON MATTHEWS
I scribbled in pencil—which you can erase with a bit of bread—some notes on the Cajan song, that may interest you.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN, VOLUME 1ELIZABETH BISLAND
The test applied was to erase some particular letter of the alphabet from one page of a book.
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHILDALBERT MOLL
We may have to use her own machine once more to erase the memory of its structure from her mind.
THE CARTELS JUNGLEIRVING E. COX, JR.
If they should allow it, they will erase it from this account, No. 2.
This time Jesse, also rising, did not essay to erase the sneer from his wrath-flushed features.
THE EDDYCLARENCE L. CULLEN
Frantically grasping soap, scrubbing brush and towel she tried to erase the foul stain from her character.
CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLEWILL M. CRESSY
It was his first offence, and he begged the captain to erase this record, but the captain said “It is true, is it not?”
THE PHILIPPINES: PAST AND PRESENT (VOLUME 1 OF 2)DEAN CONANT WORCESTER
A breath will erase from your mind every trace of their remembrance.
MORAL TALESMADAME GUIZOT
I could not erase from my memory the injuries I had received, and my vindictive spirit continually brooded over them.
JACOB FAITHFULCAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT
WORDS RELATED TO ERASE
- X-out
- annihilate
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- crucify
- dispatch
- do away with
- do in
- drown
- dump
- electrocute
- eradicate
- erase
- execute
- exterminate
- extirpate
- finish
- garrote
- get
- guillotine
- hang
- hit
- immolate
- liquidate
- lynch
- massacre
- murder
- neutralize
- obliterate
- off
- poison
- polish off
- put away
- put to death
- rub out
- sacrifice
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
- snuff
- strangle
- suffocate
- waste
- wipe out
- zap
- KO
- X-out
- annihilate
- ax
- black out
- blot out
- blue pencil
- bog
- cancel
- cover
- cut
- defeat
- delete
- do in
- efface
- eliminate
- eradicate
- erase
- expunge
- exterminate
- extirpate
- finish
- finish off
- kill
- knock off
- knock out
- level
- liquidate
- mark out
- nix
- obscure
- off
- ravage
- root out
- rub off
- rub out
- scratch
- scrub
- shoot down
- sink
- smash
- squash
- take apart
- take out
- torpedo
- total
- trash
- wash out
- waste
- wipe off face of earth
- wipe out
- zap
- KO
- X-out
- annihilate
- ax
- black out
- blot out
- blue pencil
- bog
- cancel
- cover
- cut
- defeat
- delete
- do in
- efface
- eliminate
- eradicate
- erase
- expunge
- exterminate
- extirpate
- finish
- finish off
- kill
- knock off
- knock out
- level
- liquidate
- mark out
- nix
- obscure
- off
- ravage
- root out
- rub off
- rub out
- scratch
- scrub
- shoot down
- sink
- smash
- squash
- take apart
- take out
- torpedo
- total
- trash
- wash out
- waste
- wipe off face of earth
- wipe out
- zap
- batter
- blow down
- bomb
- break down
- bulldoze
- capsize
- cast down
- crash
- decimate
- delete
- demolish
- destroy
- dynamite
- efface
- erase
- expunge
- extinguish
- extirpate
- fell
- level
- mow down
- obliterate
- overthrow
- overturn
- pull down
- reduce
- remove
- rub out
- ruin
- scatter
- scratch out
- smash
- spill
- strike out
- subvert
- tear down
- tear up
- throw down
- topple
- total
- unbuild
- undo
- unmake
- upset
- wipe out
- wrack
- wreck
- zap
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.