erasure
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈɹeɪʒə/, /ɪˈɹeɪʒʊə/
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Noun
[edit]erasure (countable and uncountable, plural erasures)
- The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], Rob Roy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 7”, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
- The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
- 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.
- 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
[edit]- (action of erasing): cancelation (US), cancellation (British), canceling (US), cancelling (British), deleting, deletion, erasing, obliterating, obliteration, wiping
- (state of having been erased): blankness
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]action of erasing
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References
[edit]Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]ērāsūre