Enter a clue or pattern or both:
The Clue
Rub the board (5 letter answer)
The Answer
ERASE
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Notes
The answer ERASE is very common and appears about once every 27 puzzles.
Related Clues
Delete
Destroy
Do in
Efface
Eliminate
Eradicate
Expunge
Nullify
Obliterate
Remove
Clean the slate
Clean, in a way
Clear the blackboard
Clear the slate
Clear a tape
Clear the tape
Demagnetize, maybe
Fix a typo
Make blank
Remove from a disk
Remove a slip?
Rub out
Take out
Wipe, as a blackboard
Wipe off
Wipe out
Wipe the slate
Get the lead out
Indulge in character assassination?
Leave rubber, in a way
Rid of chalk, e.g.
Shake, as an Etch A Sketch
Take marks off
Definition
ERASE as a verb:
1. (erase, wipe out) = remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
2. (erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe off) = remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
3. (erase, delete) = wipe out magnetically recorded information