erasure Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a correction made by erasing
    • there were many erasures in the typescript
  2. noun a surface area where something has been erased
    • another word had been written over the erasure
  3. noun deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
    expunging; expunction.

WordNet

E*ra"sure noun
Etymology
From Erase.
Definitions
  1. The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

Webster 1913