erasure
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6.3
- noun
- /ɪˈreɪʒər/
:
borrado
- The final version of the manuscript had several erasures, showing the author's revisions during the editing process.
Examples
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We learned we had to maintain six separate account books, by hand—with no erasures—which would be audited.
Blog text (28) -
Making her diary entries virtually unreadable, her obsessive acts of self-erasure would be easy to read as a form of creative self-sabotage.
Academic text (2016) -
Though, as noted above, this erasure might have taken place at an earlier stage.
Academic text (2000) -
There is, in other words, an erasure of discourse.
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Typically, if the initials have not been written in, the paper within the tablet shows signs of erasure.
Academic text (1999) -
A word came into my head, referring to this shifting and changing, these erasures that were now obvious.
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Eunice's erasure tracks the difficulties of female heroic figures in national politics.
Academic text (2017) -
The artist's erasures, however, reveal her attempts to add tension to and push the limits of the imposed grid.
Academic text (2014) -
After reviewing the test papers, the teachers noticed numerous erasures indicating changes made by the students.
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In the old journal, there were many erasures where the writer had crossed out entire entries and started anew.
Synonyms
8
4.2
A person removes words or parts of a text when editing
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Erasure comes from the verb erase, which comes from an old Latin word radere meaning 'to scrape' or 'rub off'. Think of scraping pencil or ink from paper — an erasure is the mark or area left where something was removed.