erase

Verb

• wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
  • Who erased the files form my hard disk?
    

• remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
  • Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
    

• remove from memory or existence
  • The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  delete , rub out , score out , efface , wipe off , wipe out
• Antonyms: 
  record , tape