Usually means: Removing or deleting data permanently.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. erasing: Merriam-Webster
  2. erasing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. erasing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Erasing, erasing: Wordnik
  5. erasing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. erasing: Wiktionary
  7. erasing: Dictionary.com
  8. erasing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Erasing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Erasing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Erasing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. erasing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. erasing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. erasing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. erasing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. erasing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erasing: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (erase)

verb:  (transitive) to remove markings or information
verb:  (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
verb:  (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
verb:  (intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
verb:  (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.
noun:  (computing) The operation of deleting data.
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