erasure
Syllables: e·ra·sure/ɪˈɹeɪʒə//ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/
erasure noun: the action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
Noun
erasure (countable and uncountable, plural erasures)
- The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- 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...
- 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...
- Synonyms:
- cancelation, cancellation, canceling, cancelling, deleting, deletion, erasing, obliterating, obliteration, wiping
- The state of having been erased; total blankness.
- 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
- Synonyms:
- blankness
- The place where something has been erased.
- There were several erasures on the paper.
- A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
- bisexual erasure
erasure meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Tagalog
erasure in Hindi
- erasure
- मिटाना miṭānā
erasure in Tamil
- அழித்தல், தடமழிப்பு, துடைத்தழித்தல், துடைத்தழிப்பு, அழிப்பு, துடைப்பு
erasure in Urdu
- erasure, deletion
- مٹانا miṭānā
erasure in Tagalog
- action of erasing
- pagbura
- state of having been erased
- bura, bura-bura
More languagesFewer languages
- erasure in Indonesian
- penghapusan
Examples of erasure in a sentence
- Type erasure is often seen as a mysterious, enigmatic programming technique.
- It is not exclusive to C++ (most tutorials on type erasure use Java for their examples).
- The erasure of transpeople's experiences can be understood, at least partially, as a function of the hegemony of cisnormativity.
Synonyms of erasure
- cancelation
- cancellation
- canceling
- cancelling
- deleting
- deletion
- erasing
- obliterating
- obliteration
- wiping
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Forms of erasure
| plural | erasures |
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Origin of erasure
Pseudo-Latinism, derived from ērādō (“to erase”) + -tūra (“abstract noun suffix”), equivalent to erase + -ure.
Words formed from erasure
Phrases with erasure
Questions about erasure
- What does erasure mean?
- Erasure means the action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- What is erasure in Hindi?
- Erasure in Hindi is मिटाना (miṭānā). See Erasure meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is erasure?
- Erasure is a noun.
- How do you pronounce erasure?
- Erasure is pronounced /ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of erasure?
- The plural of erasure is erasures.
Words near erasure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: erasure (page history and authors); मिटाना (Hindi) (page history and authors); erasure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مٹانا (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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