To blot out, obliterate, efface (writing, marks).

To erase or obliterate (writing, a record, etc.), originally by scraping. Also figurative. transitive. Without adverb or preposition. Now rare.

To make a blot over (writing) so as to make it illegible; to obliterate, efface. (Usually with out.)

transitive. To strike out or delete (something written or drawn); to erase; (hence) to remove or expunge from a text or document. Obsolete.

transitive. To strike out, erase, or obliterate (written or printed material); to cut or remove (something) from a document, film, recording, etc.

transitive. To mark with points or pricks of the pen; hence. To mark for erasure or omission.

transitive. To blot out (anything written, drawn, imprinted, etc.) so as to leave no distinct traces; to erase, delete, efface.

transitive. = expunge, v. Cf. expunction, n.

transitive. To strike out, blot out, erase, omit (a name or word from a list, a phrase or passage from a book or record).

transitive. To scrape or rub out (anything written, engraved, etc.); to efface, expunge, obliterate.

transitive. To delete (a letter, word, sentence, etc.) from a text; to mark for deletion. Cf. deleatur, v.

To wipe out, blot out, delete, expunge, v. Obsolete.

transitive. To omit, excise, or delete (a portion of a written work). Also intransitive. Now rare.

transitive. To blot out, erase.

To cut out (a passage or sentence) from the context; to expunge.

trans. to scratch out: to erase (writing) with a penknife. Also (cf. 3c), to delete by crossing through with a pen.

To expunge, erase (words or sentences) from a written composition or document. Now only in figurative sentences.

transitive. To remove (a passage) from written matter. (Nonce-use by analogy with interpolate, v. 3.)