the act of erasing or scraping, esp writing from a document
rasure in American English
(ˈreiʒər, -ʃər)
noun
an erasure
Word origin
[‹ MF ‹ LL rāsūra, equiv. to L rās(us) (ptp. of rādere to scratch, scrape; cf. rasorial,raze) + -ūra-ure]-ure an abstract-noun suffix of action, result, and instrument, occurring in loanwordsfrom French and Latin. Other words that use the affix -ure include: figure, nature, picture, quadrature, signature