Meaning & use

erasure

noun·Academic

The act of removing, deleting, or rubbing something out completely, whether physically or figuratively.

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A careless erasure left a smudged hole in the middle of the drawing.

Historians criticized the textbook for its erasure of the region's indigenous history.

A note on using this word

Erasure is often used figuratively today to describe the deliberate omission of a group's history, identity, or contribution from public memory.

Words with a similar meaning

deletionremoval

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