ERASING Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

erasing

verb

present participle of erase

as in eradicating

to destroy all traces of an effort to save the species from being erased from this earth

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Recent Examples of erasing Cincinnati kept pouring it on after erasing the 13-0 deficit. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 In the bottom of the sixth, Sal Frelick led off the inning with a lefty-on-lefty solo homer off Ian Seymour in a nine-pitch at-bat, completely erasing the deficit. — Ryan Morik Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Large amounts of veggies or fruits can easily spoil before smaller households can use them all, erasing any savings. — Dan Avery, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026 The Kospi, heavily weighted in chipmaker titans Samsung and SK Hynix, closed at a six-month low, erasing all of its gains since April. — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026 Aggressive cleaning settings risked erasing image detail, so technicians used masks and adjusted processing settings before completing frame-by-frame manual repairs. — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 Six years later, architect Chongxin Zhao was entrusted with restoring the space – in a way that celebrated its incredible architecture without erasing its history. — New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2026 Karlsson was ruled offside after a review, erasing Egor Chinakhov’s work of art. — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 This component's other skills include locating large files and folders, locating empty files, irretrievably erasing drives (other than the boot drive), uninstalling apps, and defragmenting disks and the registry. — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026

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The Beijing propaganda machine has been busy eradicating the truth about the Tiananmen Square Massacre for nearly forty years.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
But somehow, in the midst of all this frat-boy revelry, Ilya is able to outline his vision for the future, one in which AI will have solved numerous human problems, including eradicating not only cancer but also loneliness and unhappiness.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Oct. 2026

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One crab can eat more than 40 juvenile soft-shell clams in a day, while also destroying seagrass habitats.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
And then a seven-hour-long GRB came along—acting like a Death Star whose planet-destroying beam refused to switch off—that defied all explanation.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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