| 单词 | erasure |
| 释义 | erasure (once / 10260 pages) n Erasure is the act of erasing, deleting, or removing something. It's tricky to write an essay on a typewriter instead of a computer, because it's hard to hide any erasures. An erasure can be made, appropriately, by erasing pencilled words with an eraser, but there are many other kinds of erasure. You can experience an accidental erasure of a whole day's work by hitting the wrong button on your laptop, and you can choose to hide details of your past with the kind of erasure that involves leaving certain information out when you tell your story. The Latin root is eradere, "scrape off" or "remove." WORD FAMILYerasure: erasures+/erasable: unerasable/erase: erasable, erased, eraser, erases, erasing, erasure/eraser: erasers USAGE EXAMPLESTrump’s was a campaign largely devoid of policy proposals, except for those of erasure and exclusion. Salon(Dec 26, 2016) But with every pursuit there is the danger of crossing a line, from invisibility to erasure. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) The authorities’ erasure of historical remnants is inscrutable and unpredictable. The New Yorker(Dec 17, 2016) 1n deletion by an act of expunging or erasing Syn|Hyper expunction, expunging deletion the act of deleting something written or printed 2n a correction made by erasing there were many erasures in the typescript Hyper correction something substituted for an error 3n a surface area where something has been erased another word had been written over the erasure Hyper area, expanse, surface area the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary |
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