rub out or remove (writing or marks):graffiti had been erased from the wall
remove all traces of; destroy or obliterate:over twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erasedthe magic of the landscape erased all else from her mind
remove recorded material from (a magnetic tape or medium); delete (data) from a computer’s memory:the tape could be magnetically erased and reusedthe file has been erased from the hard disk