Erase
Kill
Kill verb - To show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it.
Usage example: I think that paragraph is irrelevant, so kill it
Erase is a synonym for kill in destroy topic. You can use "Erase" instead a verb "Kill", if it concerns topics such as help, delete, obliterate, slaughter. popular alternative
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Both words in one sentence
- Instead he hires Kincaid to kill him the next morning, then has Molly erase his memory of doing so.
Source: Loophole Abuse / Literature -
It can kill and destroy, for that just changes live people to dead people or whole objects to broken ones, but it cannot erase anything from existence.
Source: Magic A Is Magic A - The Guardians of the Galaxy thought that Korvac returned to the XX century to kill the young Vance Astro, and erase them from existence.
Source: Comic Book / The Korvac Saga
Cite this Source
Kill and Erase. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/erase/kill
Erase & Kill. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/erase/kill>.
Kill or Erase. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/erase/kill.
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