erasure
/ɪˈreɪʒə
/noun [mass noun]
1The removal of writing, recorded material, or data.The judges recorded their diving scores on cardboard "with a lot of erasure," she said....
- Some of these supraliminal frames are panels of video static, a screen equivalent of total erasure.
- It will only be these rough notes which will be liable to erasure.
Synonyms
deletion, rubbing out, wiping out/off;
crossing out, striking out, scoring out, blotting out, blanking out, scratching out, cancelling, cancellation;
effacement, expunction, expunging, excision, removal, obliteration, elimination;
censorship, censoring, bowdlerization
rare erasement
1.1The removal of all traces of something; obliteration: the erasure of prior history...
- Postmodern psychology argues for the erasure of the category of self.
- Others found comfort in the erasure of the recent past.
- The process of historical erasure may have started then.
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