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ERASURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
Synonyms:
erasure; expunction; expunging
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("erasure" is a kind of...):
deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)
Derivation:
erase (remove from memory or existence)
erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A surface area where something has been erased
Example:
another word had been written over the erasure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("erasure" is a kind of...):
area; expanse; surface area (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary)
Derivation:
erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A correction made by erasing
Example:
there were many erasures in the typescript
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("erasure" is a kind of...):
correction (something substituted for an error)
Derivation:
erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)
