ERASE Copy link • ERASEexstinguere: delere: inducere (inducere, especially of erasing whole passages with the inverted stylus): litura tollere or corrigere (to correct a mistake, mendum scripturae, with the stylus): interlinere (to erase with a line through the word, etc., to be altered): expungere (erase with dots): radere, eradere (by erasure): exsculpere (with the graving-tool). He completely erased what he had written, quae scripserat, ea plane exstinxit (Cic.). IMPROPR., exstinguere: delere.