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Erasure synonyms

ĭ-rā'shər
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cancellation
The act, or the marks or perforations made in the act, of canceling something.
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  1. The act, or the marks or perforations made in the act, of canceling something.
  2. A remedy by which a court calls in, annuls, and retains possession of a void or rescinded written legal document because it may cause unnecessary litigation or make a person’s title to property unclear. For example, a court may call in, annul, and retain possession of a void deed to real estate that a party used to falsely claim title to someone else’s real property, in order to prevent any such claims in the future.
  3. The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
deletion
(Genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
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  1. (Genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
  2. A deleting or being deleted
  3. Material, such as a word or passage, that has been removed from a body of written or printed matter.
expunging
The act by which something is expunged; a deletion.
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  1. The act by which something is expunged; a deletion.
abrasion
A wearing away by rubbing or scraping, as of rock by wind, water, etc.
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  1. A wearing away by rubbing or scraping, as of rock by wind, water, etc.
  2. The process of wearing down or rubbing away by means of friction.
  3. The process of wearing away a surface by friction. A rock undergoes abrasion when particles of sand or small pieces of rock are carried across its surface by a glacier, stream, or the wind.
eradication
The state of being plucked up by the roots.
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  1. The state of being plucked up by the roots.
  2. The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
cancellation
The act, or the marks or perforations made in the act, of canceling something.
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  1. The act, or the marks or perforations made in the act, of canceling something.
  2. A remedy by which a court calls in, annuls, and retains possession of a void or rescinded written legal document because it may cause unnecessary litigation or make a person’s title to property unclear. For example, a court may call in, annul, and retain possession of a void deed to real estate that a party used to falsely claim title to someone else’s real property, in order to prevent any such claims in the future.
  3. The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
deletion
(Genetics) The loss, as through mutation, of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome.
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  1. (Genetics) The loss, as through mutation, of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome.
  2. Material, such as a word or passage, that has been removed from a body of written or printed matter.
  3. (Genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
expunction
The act of expunging or erasing.
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  1. The act of expunging or erasing.
  2. The condition of being expunged.
  3. The act of expunging or the condition of being expunged:
Find another word for erasure. In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for erasure, like: cancellation, deletion, expunging, obliteration, canceling, rubbing-out, blotting out, sponging out, crossing out, scratching out and abrasion.

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  • A manuscript is not usually a clean or single piece of writing; it is commonly found to contain alterations by erasure, addition or substitution.

  • His erasure from the list of emigres, which he had failed to secure from Napoleon, was accorded on the request of the Russian government, and in 1803 he became governor of Odessa.

  • erasure fans?

  • in the university library, and found in the passage indicated traces of erasure.

  • erasure of information as well as confirmation of non-disclosure.

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