Erase
Erase (e*rās") , transitive verb
[Latin erasus, past participle of eradere to erase; e out + radere to scrape, scratch, shave. See Rase.]
1.
To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
2.
Figuratively: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. — Burke