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The phrase "erase myself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone expresses a desire to remove their presence or identity, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "In moments of deep reflection, I sometimes wish I could just erase myself from the memories of others."
Alternatives: "remove my existence" or "wipe myself away".
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"My shadow is there but I erase myself because I don´t know who I am any longer," he says.
P: From pre-school on, my child has uttered self-denigrating statements, such as "Why did you have me?" "You would be better off without me," or "I want to erase myself".
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I have crossed the line, too, from erasing myself to erasing others.
In abandoning my native language, I have erased myself from that memory.
Angelica rushes home from England to comfort her sister, and Eliza sings a fearsome anthem, "Burn," taking revenge on Hamilton by destroying their correspondence — which Miranda cleverly casts as a self-aware historical act: I'm erasing myself from the narrative.
I am doing that now but it took me a minute... because I erased myself for a while and pretended there was something special about me.
They've covered hair-related microaggressions, talked about cultural appropriation with Dr Adrienne Keene, discussed a "reparations tab" with Ta-Nehisi Coates, spoken with writer Durga Chew-Bose about her essay "How I Learned To Stop Erasing Myself" and devised a plan to care for your psyche in the wake of seemingly neverending police violence.
I was not from a religious family, but I found myself lying awake, praying that I could erase the memory -- or at least convince myself that it never happened.
I pass that line of distinction, I slip entire into the innermost and outermost part of myself, erasing the division between these two putative regions.
I want to erase everything ugly about my past, and myself, and replace it with something beautiful.
And here I was, feeling sorry for myself, because I couldn't erase my social media presence and it looked bad for my future employment opportunities.
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