ERA'SE, v.t. [L. erado, erasi; e and rado, to scrape; Heb. a graving tool.]
1. To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved or painted; to efface; as, to erase a word or a name.
2. To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; as with pen and ink.
3. To efface; to destroy; as ideas in the mind or memory.
4. To destroy to the foundation. [See Raze.]
