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erase
1605, from L.
erasus,
pp. of
eradere
"scrape out," from
ex-
"out" +
radere
"to scrape" (see
raze
). Of magnetic tape, from 1945.
Eraser
"thing that erases writing" is 1790, in Amer.Eng.