as in eradicated
to destroy all traces of
an effort to save the species from being erased from this earth
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Recent Examples of erased
It wasn’t erased, but it was pushed down.
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Ben Morse, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
His designer, Milicent Patrick, was erased from the story of the film for nearly 50 years, per NPR, but has since regained her place as the mother of this unforgettable monster.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Bradbury and guards Jared Wilson reached and erased the Browns' linebackers on several snaps, even as backside blockers who kept pursuing tacklers from chasing Henderson or Stevenson down.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Friday’s Game 1 erased the perception of inevitability surrounding the Dodgers.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Puntapalooza for long stretches, blown assignments, endless penalties, all erased by magical fourth quarters.
—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
But Barkov erased from the entire season is a loss far worse.
—Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Nothing vague or erased by memory here.
—Literary Hub, 24 Oct. 2025
In Florida, the 2023 heat wave erased decades of restoration projects for elkhorn and staghorn corals, including at sites where four years of intensive work had increased coral coverage by about four times.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
Ben Morse, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
His designer, Milicent Patrick, was erased from the story of the film for nearly 50 years, per NPR, but has since regained her place as the mother of this unforgettable monster.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Bradbury and guards Jared Wilson reached and erased the Browns' linebackers on several snaps, even as backside blockers who kept pursuing tacklers from chasing Henderson or Stevenson down.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Friday’s Game 1 erased the perception of inevitability surrounding the Dodgers.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Puntapalooza for long stretches, blown assignments, endless penalties, all erased by magical fourth quarters.
—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
But Barkov erased from the entire season is a loss far worse.
—Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Nothing vague or erased by memory here.
—Literary Hub, 24 Oct. 2025
In Florida, the 2023 heat wave erased decades of restoration projects for elkhorn and staghorn corals, including at sites where four years of intensive work had increased coral coverage by about four times.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for erased
Verb
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The country has also eradicated once-rampant tropical diseases like malaria.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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The New World screwworm was successfully eradicated from the United States in 1966.—
Lori Ann LaRocco,
CNBC,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Herodotus reasoned that had Helen in fact been within the walls of Troy instead of in Egypt, the Trojans would surely have surrendered her to the Greeks rather than allow their city to be destroyed.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Your homes may have been damaged or destroyed and your communities and towns no longer look the same.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In the 1980s, the Construction Differential Subsidy was abolished, hollowing out the commercial base.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
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Rogers noted that the book argues that a central cause of the war was Anglo settlers’ determination to keep slaves in bondage after Mexico largely abolished it.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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