erasure

CEFRC1

/ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The act of removing writing, marks, or recorded information.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The place where something has been erased.

Examples

  • The editor made a clean erasure of the sensitive information.

  • There were several erasures on the paper.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The state of having been erased; total blankness.

  2. The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.

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

More examples

In context

  • bisexual erasure

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

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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