as in eradicates
to destroy all traces of
an effort to save the species from being erased from this earth
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Recent Examples of erases
Commutation only reduces the punishment for a crime, whereas a full pardon erases a conviction.
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Alexander Lowie, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
Take the quiz here … ‘STOP THAT’ – Comedian calls out 'anti-Christian feel' after mall erases Christmas from tree-lighting.
—FOXNews.com, 9 Dec. 2025
The game follows a group of warrior explorers, Expedition 33, who take on a volunteer mission to the edges of the world to defeat The Paintress, a god-like being who has created the Gommage, which erases people at a certain age each year, and steadily decreases with each subsequent year.
—Richard Newby, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
This short, taut novel takes place at The Center, a rehabilitation facility for those affected by an illness that erases their memories and sense of self.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
The bill erases land manager expertise by overriding the Interior officials who developed the plan to halt coal leasing, Ashley Nunes with the Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Nov. 2025
Del Toro’s film nearly erases all that inner turmoil.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
The win improves the Bills' record to 5-2 and erases some of the pain from their two-game losing streak.
—Anne Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
The Amazon Basin builds and erases its own geography through its rivers.
—Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for erases
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Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.—
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.—
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.—
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Accordingly, the treatments misprescribed can be ineffective at best and harmful at worst, all while the parasite further destroys the cornea.—
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The bill also establishes a Class A misdemeanor if someone, without authorization of the patients, alters, forges, conceals or destroys a request for medication or rescission of a request for medication to affect a health care decision.—
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“Erases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erases. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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