Meaning & use
erasure
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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