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say it: i-RAYS
erase is a verb meaning "remove from memory or existence". It is pronounced /ɪˈɹeɪs/ — i-RAYS. It carries 3 recorded senses.
wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
“Who erased the files from my hard disk?”
recording
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for erase come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.