1. (v. t.) To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
2. (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
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