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erasable

capable of being rubbed out; easily erased: Write in pencil so that it is erasable.

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irascible – easily provoked, testy, touchy, short-tempered: an irascible boss; an irascible response

e·ras·a·ble

(ĭ-rā′sə-bəl)

adj.

1. Capable of being erased: erasable ink.

2. Capable of producing something that can be erased: an erasable pen.

e·ras′a·bil′i·ty n.

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Adj.

erasable - capable of being effaced; "the fire's worst scars were effaceable by a comprehensive program of reforestation"; "a signal too loud to be erasable in a single pass through the erase head"

effaceable

eradicable - able to be eradicated or rooted out

Translations

estinguibile

erasable

adj → löschbar; erasable programmable read only memory (Comput) → löschbarer programmierbarer Festwertspeicher

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erasable

[ɪˈreɪzəbl] adj → cancellabile

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The included markers are erasable, allowing the OVIE Bank to be reused again and again.