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erasure

noun
/ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/US/ɪˈɹeɪʒə/UK

Etymology

From Latin ērādō (“to erase”) + -tūra, equivalent to erase + -ure.

  1. derived from ērādō — “to erase”

Definitions

  1. The action of erasing

    The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.

    • An inroad on the strongbox, or an erasure in the ledger, or a missummation in a fitted account, could hardly have surprised him more disagreeably.
    • The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

  2. The state of having been erased

    The state of having been erased; total blankness.

  3. The place where something has been erased.

    • There were several erasures on the paper.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.

      • bisexual erasure

The neighborhood

Derived

bi-erasure, erasure code, erasure poem, erasure poetry, mechanical erasure, nonerasure, trans-erasure, under erasure, unerasure

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for erasure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA