erase
verb (used with object)
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
erased
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past participleof erase.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof erase.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
eraseverb (used with object)to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
Example Sentences
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Long-term Treasury yields erased most of Wednesday’s drop after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s released bond buyback plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
U.S. stocks on Friday closed out a brutal month that erased a chunk of the summer’s gains in technology names.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Citizen detectives like Diarra Brickland, who arranges her messy life around ensuring that the people and prizes typically overlooked or quietly erased by the mainstream keep being seen, are even less common.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
A spell has erased Peter Parker from the world’s memory — the price of undoing the public exposure of his identity — leaving him a stranger to his best friend, Ned, and to MJ.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
From then on, whenever the teacher left the room or simply wasn’t looking, Palmer erased what he had just written.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
