erasure

Noun

Meaning

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cancellation deletion obliteration expunging expunction cancelling deleting canceling erasing clear destroy destruction removal eliminate cancelled

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Antonyms

hall amendment increase annex gain creation

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Hypernyms

area correction deletion expanse surface area

Phrases with the word

under erasure erasure of personal identity erasure of identity erasure poetry mechanical erasure Landauer erasure

Examples

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

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. Daniel Libeskind

It is so depressing to watch, almost on a daily basis, the erasure of great men by know-nothing non-entities who can build nothing, create nothing, do nothing but destroy all that does not conform to the ever shifting pieties of present-tense virtue-signalling. Mark Steyn

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work. Kathleen Hanna

Some of the symbols written down will form the sequence of figures which is the decimal of the real number... being computed. The others are just rough notes to "assist the memory ". ...[O]nly ...these rough notes ...will be liable to erasure. Alan Turing

another word had been written over the erasure Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Erastianize erastin Erastus erasure code erasure of identity erasure of personal identity