erase

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ɪˈreɪz/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ɪˈreɪs/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(i rās)

Inflections of 'erase' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
erases
v 3rd person singular
erasing
v pres p
erased
v past
erased
v past p
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
erase [sth] vtr (remove by rubbing out)borrar vtr
 The teacher erased the vocabulary list once all of the students had written it down.
 El profesor borró la lista de vocabulario una vez que todos los alumnos la hubieron copiado.
erase [sth] vtr figurative (eradicate, remove)borrar vtr
  erradicar vtr
 The government department erased the incident from its records.
 Sally couldn't erase the memory of Neil's cruel words.
 El departamento gubernamental borró el incidente de sus registros. // Sally no podía borrar de su memoria las crueles palabras de Neil.
erase [sth] vtr (delete: a computer file)borrar vtr
  eliminar vtr
 Harry accidentally erased the file he had been working on all day and had to start again.
 Harry borró por accidente el archivo en el que había estado trabajando todo el día y tuvo que empezar de nuevo.
erase [sth] vtr (delete: text on a computer)borrar vtr
  eliminar vtr
 Alison looked at what she had just written, decided she didn't like it, and erased it.
 Alison miró lo que acababa de escribir, decidió que no le gustaba y lo borró.
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Additional Translations
InglésEspañol
erase [sb] vtr figurative, slang (kill) (coloquial)eliminar a vtr + prep
  (figurado)liquidar a vtr + prep
  matar a vtr + prep
 The hit man erased his target.
 El sicario eliminó a su objetivo.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
dry erase marker,
dry-erase marker,
dry-erase marker pen,
dry-erase marking pen
n
(erasable whiteboard pen) (AmL)marcador de pizarra, marcador borrable loc nom m
  (ES)rotulador de pizarra, rotulador borrable loc nom m
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Spanish:

Collocations: erase [pencil, the mark, your writing], erased the [documents, files, cookies], erase [documents] from [the server, your folder, the computer], more...

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