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Webster 1913 Edition


Erasure

E-ra′sure

(?; 135)
,
Noun.
[From
Erase
.]
1.
The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

Webster 1828 Edition


Erasure

ERA'SURE

,
Noun.
era'zhur. The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
1.
The place where a word or letter has been erased or obliterated.

Definition 2024


erasure

erasure

English

Noun

erasure (countable and uncountable, plural erasures)

  1. The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
  2. The state of having been erased; total blankness.
    • 2004 October 18, The New Yorker:
      Bush, even when he had the floor, grimaced as he spoke, except on several occasions when he lost his way and a look of total erasure came over him, a blank, stricken stare for which the French, alas, have the most apt expression: like a cow watching a train go by.
  3. The place where something has been erased.
    There were several erasures on the paper.
  4. (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
    bisexual erasure

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Latin

Participle

ērāsūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of ērāsūrus