Erasure

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Erasure \E*ra"sure\ (?; 135), n. [From {Erase}.]
     1. The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. the place where something has been erased.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  erasure
       n 1: a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in
            the typescript"
       2: a surface area where something has been erased; "another
          word had been written over the erasure"
       3: deletion by an act of expunging or erasing [syn: {expunction},
           {expunging}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "erasure":
     abbreviation, ablation, abrasion, abrasive, abridgment, attrition,
     blackout, blocking, blot, blotting, blotting out, blue-penciling,
     bowdlerization, buffing, burnishing, cancel, cancellation,
     censoring, censorship, chafe, chafing, deletion, dematerialization,
     departure, detrition, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion,
     dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, dressing, eclipse, editing,
     effacement, elimination, erosion, evanescence, evaporation,
     expunction, expurgation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading,
     filing, fretting, galling, going, grazing, grinding, limation,
     melting, obliteration, occultation, omission, passing, polishing,
     rasping, rubbing away, sandblasting, sanding, scouring, scrape,
     scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, shining,
     smoothing, striking, vanishing, vanishing point, washing out, wear,
     wearing away, wipe, wiping out
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ERASURE, contracts, evidence. The obliteration of a writing; it will render 
  it void or not under the same circumstances as an interlineation. (q.v.) 
  Vide 5 Pet. S. C. R. 560; 11 Co. 88; 4 Cruise, Dig. 368; 13 Vin. Ab. 41; 
  Fitzg. 207; 5 Bing. R. 183; 3 C. & P. 65; 2 Wend. R. 555; 11 Conn. R. 531; 5 
  M. R. 190; 2 L. R. 291 3 L. R. 56; 4 L. R. 270. 
       2. Erasures and interlineations are presumed to have been made after 
  the execution of a deed, unless the contrary be proved. 1 Dall. 67; 1 Pet. 
  169; 4 Bin. 1; 10 Serg. & R. 64, 170, 419; 16 Serg. & R. 44.