Word Meanings - ERASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ERASE)

• Blot Obscure
• tarnish
• spoil
• sully
• spot
• discolor
• pollute
• obliterate
• erase
• blur
• stain
• blotch
• smear
• smutch
• Blot out
• Erase
• efface
• cancel
• expunge
• wipe out
• destroy
• Cancel
• Efface
• blot out
• annul
• nullify
• quash
• rescind
• repeal
• revoke
• abrogate
• discharge
• abolish
• countervail
• eradicate
• Expunge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ERASE)

• Purify
• wash
• cleanse
• absolve
• ornament
• decorate
• emblazon
• signalize
• honor

Related words: (words related to ERASE)

• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• BLOTCH
  A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson. (more info) black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a 1. A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• REPEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being repealable.
• SMEAR DAB
  The sand fluke .
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• ANNULARITY
  Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.
• ANNUL
  1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws,
• ABOLISHMENT
  The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• SMEARED
  Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth .
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• COUNTERVAIL
  To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• BESMEAR
  To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
• DISANNULLER
  One who disannuls.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• INEFFACEABLE
  Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.