erase

verb

• rub out or remove (writing or marks):graffiti had been erased from the wall
• remove all traces of; destroy or obliterate:over twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased the magic of the landscape erased all else from her mind
• remove recorded material from (a magnetic tape or medium); delete (data) from a computer’s memory: the tape could be magnetically erased and reused the file has been erased from the hard disk