Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
erasure , 1. - noun In surgery, the removal of morbid tissue by scraping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
erasing ; a rubbing out orobliteration .
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Examples
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Paul, beginning to smell a rat, examined the notice with closer attention, and soon detected the erasion where "Fifth" had been substituted for "Third Form."
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In such cases the erasion was so clumsily performed as often to leave distinct traces of the previous letters.
De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Here again the appearance is somewhat altered by the presence of a considerable amount of lymph, but this is of less importance in this figure because the lymph is localised to the portion of the bowel in the immediate neighbourhood of the opening which had suffered contusion and erasion.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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There are forces ever about us that minister to erasion and oblivion.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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Of these various operative methods those now most favored are erasion and excision, punctate and linear scarification methods are now rarely employed.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Cauterization, scarification, erasion and excision are variously practised; the particular method depending, in great measure, upon the extent of the disease, the part involved, and other circumstances.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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By the use of such caustics as caustic potash, chloride-of-zinc paste, pyrogallic acid, arsenic, and the galvano-cautery; and by operative measures, such as excision and erasion with the dermal curette, and by the _x_-ray.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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My friend said, "Browning scarcely made an erasion or change in writing his poems," and referred to Mr. Browning's MSS. for the press, of which examples were lying near us.
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878
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To my surprise, See Yup triumphantly produced HIS copy with the erasion itself carefully imitated, and, in fact, much more neatly done than mine.
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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Several entries had been already rubbed out, and it was clear that she had been occupied in the task of erasion on that very night.
Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839
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