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UK
/ɪɹˈeɪʒɐ/
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NOUN
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a surface area where something has been erased
another word had been written over the erasure -
a correction made by erasing
there were many erasures in the typescript - deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
How To Use erasure In A Sentence
- there were many erasures in the typescript
- The silly pretext of difficulties by which my erasure, notwithstanding the reiterated solicitations of the victorious General, was so long delayed made me apprehensive of a renewal, under a weak and jealous pentarchy, of the horrible scenes of 1796. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
- Faith in American virtue remains intact, and the erasure of collective memory is stunning.
- Others found comfort in the erasure of the recent past.
- It will only be these rough notes which will be liable to erasure.
- Just like erasing a magnetic hard disk does not delete all the information stored on the disk, common erasure methods for tapes do not erase all of the data on the tape.
- Erasure, like silence, suggests a sweeping lack of authority by owning up to a loss of control.
- It was thirty pages long, column after column of kanji characters arranged vertically on the pages, with never a strikeover or erasure, now and then a crude stick-figure drawing with arrows or dotted lines signifying this or that mysterious pathology. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
- The crude faceless void left by the erasure of his portrait on the Berlin tondo, for example, shows signs of having been smeared with excrement.66 Caesars’ Wives
- His paintings are full of erasures, redrawn lines and strokes partially covered with translucent white paint.