erasing

Verb

erase (third-person singular simple present erases, present participle erasing, simple past and past participle erased)

1. (transitive) To remove (markings or information).
   • I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.
2. (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
   • I'm going to erase this tape.
3. (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
   • I'm going to erase those files.
4. (transitive) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
   • Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
5. (intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
   • The chalkboard erased easily.
6. (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
   • I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out

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