1. the act of erasing or removing something completely
2. a place where something has been erased or rubbed out
3. the deliberate concealment or ignoring of something from history or memory
Usage: academic; social sciences

Examples

• The erasure of the pencil marks left the paper clean.
• You can still see the erasure where she changed her answer.
• The software allows complete erasure of deleted files.
• The historical erasure of women’s contributions is being corrected.
• There was an obvious erasure in the middle of the document.
• The erasure of the graffiti took several hours.
• Critics argue this represents an erasure of cultural identity.