(v. t.) To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
(v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5) and erased from the original Kauffmann-White-Schema and the Arizona Antigenic Schema to avoid a wrong diagnosis.
(2) Paterson added in the letter, published on the PoliticsHome website : "However, the government is rightly committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and has already taken action to do so by allowing those religious premises that wish to carry out civil partnerships to do so, erasing historic convictions for consensual gay sex and putting pressure on other countries that violate the human rights of LGBT people.
(3) In her study, Mandel explains how the media’s “narrative of polarisation” erases multiple and complex interactions, reducing everything to a hostility that is framed by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
(4) Eating at the meal site erased significant differences in dietary intake of nutrients consumed at home related to sex, education, and occupation.
(5) I sometimes think about erasing them, but that would be like pretending it didn't happen.
(6) Conservatives were unhappy the measure doesn’t erase enough of Obama’s law while at the other end of the party’s spectrum, moderates were upset the bill would strip millions of health coverage.
(7) Although the conservative-dominated coalition has made headway in purging the state sector since it assumed power in June 2012, sceptical attitudes have been hard to erase.
(8) "It's not like [2006 solo album] The Eraser at all," he said.
(9) The government is now considering whether to ask the employees, most of whom work in waste disposal and public transport, to have their tattoos erased, or even to find another job.
(10) That it may conceal, or even completely erase, major abnormalities of ventricular repolarization induced by certain drugs is not so well known.
(11) Feinstein’s speech this morning seems unlikely to erase that perception.
(12) The UN report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said on Thursday that the Islamist militants, who include foreign fighters, had been systematically capturing Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014 , seeking to “erase their identity”.
(13) Nonetheless, the project may have helped to erase the stereotype that all teenage fathers neglect their parental responsibilities.
(14) The second echo type consisted of one of the animal's echolocation clicks, previously measured, digitized and stored in an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM).
(15) Any idea that filming may be glamorous has been erased from my daughter's head.
(16) Child survival gains in the last three decades in the developed world could be quickly erased at low levels of maternal HIV infection, but gains would not be completely offset in the developing world until more than 40% of mothers became infected with HIV.
(17) The police are reluctant to pursue the case and, according to the Express Tribune, phone records for the last 18 days of Shahzad's life have been mysteriously erased.
(18) For her, the few memories of that night but the many of its extended aftermath cannot be erased.
(19) The demonstrations' bloody ending has largely erased memories of the carnival of protest that preceded it: an astonishing uprising which lasted six weeks and drew in millions of people from around the country, threatening an end to communist rule.
(20) Erase even more, you cowardly regime,” Abo Bakr wrote on a wall in a message to the whitewashers.
Palimpsest
Definition:
(n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
Example Sentences:
(1) He wrote in the memoir Palimpsest that he had more than 1,000 "sexual encounters" – nothing special, he added, compared with the pursuits of such peers as John F Kennedy and Tennessee Williams.
(2) But the way an area has been used over time, both above and below ground, can also be presented as a layered historical palimpsest, which can serve the purposes of archaeological justice and memory – as with ScanLAB’s Living Death Camps project with Forensic Architecture, on two concentration-camp sites in the former Yugoslavia.
(3) His two memoirs – Palimpsest and its sequel, Point To Point Navigation, published in 2006 – describe friendships with Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Margaret and Leonard Bernstein.
(4) HarperCollins, which runs the 4th Estate imprint, said the crucial mistake happened when a small Scottish typesetter, Palimpsest, sent "the last but one version" of the book file to the printers.
(5) And Vidal more or less admitted it himself, writing in his memoir Palimpsest that he was "attracted to adolescent males".
(6) Among individual phenomena the following are important: in stage I regular contact with the drug (04) and increased tolerance (05), in stage II secret drinking (2) and frequency of palimpsests (7), in stage III signs derived mostly from rationalization and alcohol-centered behaviour and finally in stage IV impaired thinking (33), reduced tolerance (37) and possible ethic degradation (32).
(7) He claimed in his memoir Palimpsest that by the age of 25 he had had more than 1,000 sexual encounters with men and women, tending towards what he called "same-sex sex".
(8) In Palimpsest he recalled finding, "to my surprise", that Kerouac was circumcised.
(9) The man who was recording our podcast in the other room was listening through the wall; he said the word "palimpsest" (I remember it, in my earphone).
(10) Timbuktu is a palimpsest in the sand that proves otherwise.
(11) He published a gossipy but moving memoir, Palimpsest (1995), which cut back and forth between the author's present, mostly in Ravello, and his first four frenetic decades.
(12) Loss of control (8) in the reported form is closer to the onset of development and the frequency of palimpsests (7) develops later, usually is overlaps with prolonged drunkedness (31).
(13) At the onset of development dominates "non-adaptive" drinking evaluated frequently as loss of control and in the more advanced stage the constant incidence of palimpsests causes frequent intoxication and declining tolerance.