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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | erasure |
| Synonyms: | cancellation, crossing out, cut, expunction, expunging, remotion, removal |
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| Main Entry: | cancellation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calling off; erasure |
| Synonyms: | abandoning, abandonment, abolishing, abolition, abrogation, annulment, canceling, deletion, dissolution, dissolving, elimination, invalidating, invalidation, nullification, overruling, quashing, recall, recalling, repeal, repudiation, retirement, retracting, retraction, reversal, reversing, revocation, revoking, undoing, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, arrangement, establishment, permission |
| Main Entry: | erasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cancellation |
| Synonyms: | blotting out, canceling, crossing out, deleting, deletion, effacing, eradication, expunction, expunging, obliteration, rubbing out, scratching out, wiping out |
| Main Entry: | expunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | erasure |
| Synonyms: | blotting out, canceling, cancellation, crossing out, deleting, deletion, erasing, expunging |
| Main Entry: | obliteration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | erasure |
| Synonyms: | blotting out, canceling, cancellation, crossing out, deleting, deletion, effacing, eradication, expunction, expunging, rubbing out, scratching out, wiping out |
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| Concept: | [Suppression of sign] Obliteration. |
| Category: | 1. Natural Means |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
obliteration; erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot; tabula rasa; effacement, extinction.
-verbs
efface, obliterate, erase, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge., be effaced; leave no trace; "leave not a rack behind."
-adjectives
obliterated; out of print; printless; leaving no trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
-phrases
delenda est Carthago [Cato].
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| Antonyms: | record |
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