'Erasure' definitions:
Definition of 'erasure'
(from WordNet)
noun
A correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in the typescript"
noun
A surface area where something has been erased; "another word had been written over the erasure"
noun
Deletion by an act of expunging or erasing [syn: expunction, expunging, erasure]
Definition of 'Erasure'
From: GCIDE
- Erasure \E*ra"sure\ (?; 135), n. [From Erase.]
- 1. The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration. [1913 Webster]
- 2. the place where something has been erased. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'erasure'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviation,
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- abridgment,
- attrition,
- blackout,
- blocking,
- blot,
- blotting,
- blotting out,
- blue-penciling,
- bowdlerization,
- buffing,
- burnishing,
- cancel,
- cancellation,
- censoring,
- censorship,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- deletion,
- dematerialization,
- departure,
- detrition,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- dispersion,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- dissolving,
- dressing,
- eclipse,
- editing,
- effacement,
- elimination,
- erosion,
- evanescence,
- evaporation,
- expunction,
- expurgation,
- extinction,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- fading,
- filing,
- fretting,
- galling,
- going,
- grazing,
- grinding,
- limation,
- melting,
- obliteration,
- occultation,
- omission,
- passing,
- polishing,
- rasping,
- rubbing away,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- shining,
- smoothing,
- striking,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- washing out,
- wear,
- wearing away,
- wipe,
- wiping out