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erased

adj.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //iˈɹeɪst// UK //ɪɹˈeɪzd// erased

adj. completely removed or rubbed out so that nothing remains. You use this to describe marks, memories, or data that are gone.

adj. removed completely from a surface, record, or memory. Often used as a participial adjective to describe a state of total absence or deletion.


SIMPLE

The pencil marks are now erased from the paper.

CONTEXTUAL

After the system update, all the old files were erased to make room for new data.

COMPLEX

The historian noted that while the physical monuments were destroyed, the cultural impact of the era could not be so easily erased from the collective memory of the people.

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Often follows a linking verb like 'be' or 'become'; frequently paired with the preposition 'from'.

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