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Webster 1913 Edition
Erasure
1.
The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
Webster 1828 Edition
Erasure
ERA'SURE
,Noun.
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)
- The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 7,
- The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 7,
- 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.
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- The place where something has been erased.
- There were several erasures on the paper.
- (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
- bisexual erasure
Synonyms
- (action of erasing): cancelation (US), cancellation (British), canceling (US), cancelling (British), deleting, deletion, erasing, obliterating, obliteration, wiping
- (state of having been erased): blankness
Translations
action of erasing
state of having been erased
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