Past tense of erase
regular verb
The past tense of erase is erased. The past participle is also erased.
Forms of erase
| Base form (V1) | erase /ɪˈɹeɪs/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | erased |
| Past participle (V3) | erased |
| Present participle | erasing |
| Third person singular | erases |
Erased in a sentence
- I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.
- Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
- "On Earth, features like these may well have been largely erased."2025 September 3, Julia Jacobo, “What are the mysterious blobs on Mars? Astronomers may have figured it out”, in ABC News. From the entry sluggishly
- It also erased his 23-year prison sentence and ordered a retrial.2024 April 27, Maya Yang, “Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein hospitalized”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry vacate
- The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry passage
Meaning of erase
- verb To remove (markings or information).
- verb To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
- verb To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
Questions about the past tense of erase
- What is the past tense of erase?
- The past tense of erase is erased.
- What is the past participle of erase?
- The past participle of erase is erased.
- Is erase a regular or irregular verb?
- Erase is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: erase (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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