Meaning of Erasure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
   countable, uncountable
2. The state of having been erased; total blankness.
   countable, uncountable
3. The place where something has been erased.
   countable, uncountable
4. A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

“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.”

“There were several erasures on the paper.”

“bisexual erasure”

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