Ignore carriage returns in select statement

Within Oracle Report builder, I am using a select startment
select descr
from atable
"descr" contains carriage returns at the end of the input ie people have enter 'enter' when inputting the data.
how do write the select statement to ignore the carriage return 'enter' contain within "descr".
Thanks

SQL> SELECT 'aa' || chr(10) || 'bb' c FROM dual;
C
aa
bb
SQL> SELECT translate('aa' || chr(10) || 'bb', chr(10),' ') c FROM dual;
C
aa bb
SQL> SELECT 'aa' || chr(13) || 'bb' c FROM dual;
C
aa
bb
SQL> SELECT translate('aa' || chr(13) || 'bb', chr(13),' ') c FROM dual;
C
aa bb
SQL> "For Windows"
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