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erase

verb
  1. remove from memory or existence
    “The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915”
    wipe out
  2. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
    “Who erased the files form my hard disk?”
    delete
  3. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
    “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”
    efface