What does borrar in Spanish mean?

What is the meaning of the word borrar in Spanish? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use borrar in Spanish.

The word borrar in Spanish means erase, remove from, forget, fade away, disappear, vanish, erase from your memory, wipe from your memory, wipe off the map, eraser. To learn more, please see the details below.

Listen to pronunciation

Meaning of the word borrar

erase

verbo transitivo (hacer que desaparezca) (image, text)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Stalin borraba de las fotos a sus antiguos compañeros de partido.
Stalin used to erase his former party colleagues from photos.

remove from

verbo transitivo (quitar) (listing)

Borra mi nombre de la lista para el regalo del jefe.
Remove me from the list for the boss's present.

forget

verbo pronominal (olvidarse de algo) (mental image: lose)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
El recuerdo de su primer amor nunca se borró.
The memory of your first love is never forgotten.

fade away

verbo pronominal (eliminarse)

Lavé la gorra que me firmó mi actor favorito y se borró el autógrafo.
I washed the cap that my favorite actor had signed and the autograph faded away.

disappear, vanish

verbo pronominal (figurado (desvanecerse)

(intransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived.")
Se borró su sonrisa cuando escuchó las malas noticias.
His smile disappeared when he heard the bad news.

erase from your memory, wipe from your memory

locución verbal (olvidar algo)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
Debes borrar de la memoria el episodio y avanzar.
You must wipe the episode from your memory and move on.

wipe off the map

locución verbal (figurado (matar)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
El tirano borraba del mapa a todos sus enemigos.
The tyrant wiped all of his enemies off the map.

eraser

nombre femenino (caucho: borrador)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
¿Alguien tiene una goma de borrar que me pueda prestar?
Does anyone have an eraser that I can borrow?

Let's learn Spanish

So now that you know more about the meaning of borrar in Spanish, you can learn how to use them through selected examples and how to read them. And remember to learn the related words that we suggest. Our website is constantly updating with new words and new examples so you can look up the meanings of other words you don't know in Spanish.

Do you know about Spanish

Spanish (español), also known as Castilla, is a language of the Iberian-Romance group of the Romance languages, and the 4th most common language in the world according to Some sources, while others list it as a 2nd or 3rd most common language. It is the mother tongue of about 352 million people, and is spoken by 417 million people when adding its speakers as a language. sub (estimated in 1999). Spanish and Portuguese have very similar grammar and vocabulary; The number of similar vocabulary of these two languages is up to 89%. Spanish is the primary language of 20 countries around the world. It is estimated that the total number of speakers of Spanish is between 470 and 500 million, making it the second most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.