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erasure en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ɪˈɹeɪʒə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɪˈɹeɪʒʊə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Italic *razdō Latin radō Latin ērādō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra English erasure Pseudo-Latinism, derived from ērādō (“to erase”) + -tūra (“abstract noun suffix”), equivalent to erase + -ure.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
    • 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, August 2001:
  2. (countable, uncountable) 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:
  3. (countable, uncountable) The place where something has been erased.
    • There were several erasures on the paper.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
    • bisexual erasure

Forms

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erasures Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

erasure poem · unerasure · trans-erasure · nonerasure · mechanical erasure · bi-erasure · under erasure · erasure code · erasure poetry

Hyponyms

type erasure

Synonyms

wiping (action of erasing) · obliterating (action of erasing) · canceling (action of erasing) · cancellation (action of erasing) · cancelling (action of erasing) · deletion (action of erasing) · blankness (state of having been erased) · erasing (action of erasing) · obliteration (action of erasing) · cancelation (action of erasing) · deleting (action of erasing)

Translations (18)

ru стира́ние (action of erasing) · cs mazání (action of erasing) · es borradura (state of having been erased) · es borrado (action of erasing) · cs smazání (action of erasing) · pt apagamento (action of erasing) · bg заличаване (action of erasing) · tl bura (state of having been erased) · la litūra (action of erasing) · es borradura (action of erasing) · wa disfaçaedje (action of erasing) · es borrado (state of having been erased) · tl bura-bura (state of having been erased) · id penghapusan (action of erasing) · cs výmaz (action of erasing) · bg изтриване (action of erasing) · tl pagbura (action of erasing) · cs vymazání (action of erasing)