erasure

Plural: erasures

Noun

• The act of erasing or the part erased.
• a correction made by erasing
  • "there were many erasures in the typescript"
• a surface area where something has been erased
  • "another word had been written over the erasure"
• deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
• The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
• The state of having been erased; total blankness.
• The place where something has been erased.
• A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.

Examples

• The quick erasure of their previous low-scoring word was a wise decision for a better play.
• There were several erasures on the paper.

Synonyms

expunction, expunging, blankness, cancelation, canceling, cancellation, cancelling, deleting, deletion, erasing, obliterating, obliteration, wiping