OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13196

erasure

/ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
borrado • borradura
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
An inroad on the strongbox, or an erasure in the ledger, or a missummation in a fitted account, could hardly have surprised him more disagreeably.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
borrado • borradura
The state of having been erased; total blankness.
Bush, even when he had the floor, grimaced as he spoke, except on several occasions when he lost his way and a look of total erasure came over him, a blank, stricken stare for whic…
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