To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; efface; blot or strike out; obliterate; expunge: as, to erase a word or a name.
Hence To remove or destroy, as if by rubbing or blotting out.
To destroy to the foundation; raze.
Synonyms Cancel, Obliterate, etc. (see efface); wipe out, rub off, remove.
In entomology, sinuate, with the sinuses cut into smaller irregular notches: applied especially to the wings of certain Lepidoptera.