erasure

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹeɪʒə/, /ɪˈɹeɪʒʊə/

Noun

erasure (countable and uncountable, plural erasures)

1. The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 7, [1]

     The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

2. 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.

3. The place where something has been erased.

   There were several erasures on the paper.

4. (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

Hyponyms

• type erasure

Translations

action of erasing

• Bulgarian: изтриване (bg) n (iztrivane), заличаване (bg) n (zaličavane)
• Latin: litūra f
• Russian: стира́ние (ru) n (stiránije)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Tagalog: pagbura
• Walloon: disfaçaedje (wa) m

state of having been erased

• Tagalog: bura, bura-bura
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) ērāsūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ērāsūrus