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单词 erasure
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erasuren.

/ɪˈreɪʒə/
Etymology: formed as erase n. + -ure suffix1.
1.
a. The action of erasing or obliterating.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > of writing, text, etc.
cancellingc1440
cancellation1535
deleting1544
deletion1590
expunction1606
retrenching1647
retrenchment1668
erasement1721
expunging1721
erasure1755
excision1858
redaction1962
1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 277 The desperate erasure of his Christian name.
1808 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xxi. 773 The devise to the trustees was not revoked by the erasure.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. ii. 43 To select a part [of a book] which we may happen to approve, and by evasive arts to effect the erasure of the other part.
1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) I. i. 24 The erasure of his name from the list of privy councillors.
b. An instance of erasing or obliterating.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > instance of
blot1710
erasure1734
blotting1791
erasion1889
caviar1899
1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (1827) I. ii. 239 A good performance is not to be expected without many erasures and corrections.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 183 If the number of these fancied erasures did not startle him.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xix. 146 The erasure was not made by the testator with an intention to revoke his will.
c. = erasing n. c.
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1950 G. A. Briggs Sound Reprod. (ed. 2) xx. 139 Thorough erasure of the tape or wire is necessary before it passes over the recording head.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 252 Erasure, the removal of recorded signals from a tape so that it is ready to re-use.
1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 79/2 (advt.) Complete, gradual or selective erasure is possible.
2. concrete. The place where a word or letter has been erased or obliterated.
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a1891 Mod. The word was written over an erasure.
3. Total destruction; ‘wiping out’. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation
anientizement1429
deletiona1513
extincting1513
annihilment1526
exterminion1528
nulling1538
annihilation1541
exterminationc1550
nullity1555
annihilating1577
massacre1595
extinguishment1599
extinct1606
expunction1615
extinction1615
discreationa1628
nullificationa1631
nullifying1640
decreation1647
defacedness1668
extinguishinga1676
erasurea1794
exterminating1796
blotting out1808
naughting1913
wipeout1968
a1794 E. Gibbon (O.) Erasure of cities.
1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iv. iv. 267 Repeated destruction of the first Christian settlements, and the erasure of the accompanying progress of arts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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