Erasure Meaning
/ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
nounThe state of having been erased; total blankness.
Sentence Examples
There were several erasures on the paper.
bisexual erasure
The editor made a clean erasure of the sensitive information.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The accidental ____ of the file caused panic among the research team.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The digital ____ of the files was complete, and they could not be recovered.
Word Origin & History
From Latin ērādō (“to erase”) + -tūra, equivalent to erase + -ure.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 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:
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."
— 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:
"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."
— 2004 October 18, The New Yorker:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The accidental ____ of the file caused panic among the research team.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The digital ____ of the files was complete, and they could not be recovered.