erasure

4 definitions found

erasure - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.]

erasure - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  erasure
      n 1: a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in
           the typescript"
      2: a surface area where something has been erased; "another word
         had been written over the erasure"
      3: deletion by an act of expunging or erasing [syn:
         expunction, expunging, erasure]

erasure - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ERASURE, contracts, evidence. The obliteration of a writing; it will render 
  it void or not under the same circumstances as an interlineation. (q.v.) 
  Vide 5 Pet. S. C. R. 560; 11 Co. 88; 4 Cruise, Dig. 368; 13 Vin. Ab. 41; 
  Fitzg. 207; 5 Bing. R. 183; 3 C. & P. 65; 2 Wend. R. 555; 11 Conn. R. 531; 5 
  M. R. 190; 2 L. R. 291 3 L. R. 56; 4 L. R. 270. 
       2. Erasures and interlineations are presumed to have been made after 
  the execution of a deed, unless the contrary be proved. 1 Dall. 67; 1 Pet. 
  169; 4 Bin. 1; 10 Serg. & R. 64, 170, 419; 16 Serg. & R. 44. 
  
  

erasure - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "erasure":
     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