different between erase vs demolish

English

Etymology

From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?-r?z?, IPA^(key): /???e?z/
• (US) enPR: ?-r?s?, IPA^(key): /???e?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s, -e?z

Verb

erase (third-person singular simple present erases, present participle erasing, simple past and past participle erased)

1. (transitive) to remove markings or information

2. (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.

3. (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.

4. (transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play

5. (intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).

6. (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
   • 1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out

     I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.

   • 2004, Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones (page 209)

     As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.

   • 2011, Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies (page 40)

     Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.
7. (transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.

Antonyms

• (remove markings or information): record

Derived terms

Related terms

• erasure

Translations

Noun

erase (plural erases)

1. (computing) The operation of deleting data.
   • 2000, Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture (page 603)

     This subsystem is waiting to become Exclusive after having issued an erase.

Anagrams

• Rease, eares, easer, saree

Italian

Verb

erase

1. third-person singular past historic of eradere

Verb

erase f

1. plural of eraso

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??ra?.se/, [e???ä?s??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?ra.se/, [?????s??]

Participle

?r?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ?r?sus

English

Etymology

Attested since the 16th century; from Middle French demoliss-, the stem of some conjugated forms of the verb demolir (“to destroy”, “to tear down”), from Latin d?m?lior (“I tear down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??m?l.??/

Verb

demolish (third-person singular simple present demolishes, present participle demolishing, simple past and past participle demolished)

1. To destroy.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
   • 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope (page 68)

     The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
     'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:destroy

Related terms

• demolition

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “demolish”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• modelish