erase
verb (used with object)
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
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The revenue's immediate purpose will be erasing a 2015 budget deficit totaling $27.3 million.
From Chicago Tribune ● Nov. 14, 2014