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English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???e???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???e???/, /???e????/

Noun

erasure (countable and uncountable, plural erasures)

1. The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 7, [1]

     The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

2. The state of having been erased; total blankness.
3. The place where something has been erased.

   There were several erasures on the paper.

4. (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.

   bisexual erasure

Synonyms

• (action of erasing): cancelation (US), cancellation (British), canceling (US), cancelling (British), deleting, deletion, erasing, obliterating, obliteration, wiping
• (state of having been erased): blankness

Hyponyms

• type erasure

Translations

References

• erasure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Participle

?r?s?re

1. vocative masculine singular of ?r?s?rus

English

Etymology

From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?-r?z?, IPA^(key): /???e?z/
• (US) enPR: ?-r?s?, IPA^(key): /???e?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s, -e?z

Verb

erase (third-person singular simple present erases, present participle erasing, simple past and past participle erased)

1. (transitive) to remove markings or information

2. (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.

3. (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.

4. (transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play

5. (intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).

6. (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
   • 1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out

     I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.

   • 2004, Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones (page 209)

     As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.

   • 2011, Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies (page 40)

     Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.
7. (transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.

Antonyms

• (remove markings or information): record

Derived terms

Related terms

• erasure

Translations

Noun

erase (plural erases)

1. (computing) The operation of deleting data.
   • 2000, Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture (page 603)

     This subsystem is waiting to become Exclusive after having issued an erase.

Anagrams

• Rease, eares, easer, saree

Italian

Verb

erase

1. third-person singular past historic of eradere

Verb

erase f

1. plural of eraso

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??ra?.se/, [e???ä?s??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?ra.se/, [?????s??]

Participle

?r?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ?r?sus