erasure
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
erasure
n 1: a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in
the typescript"
2: a surface area where something has been erased; "another word
had been written over the erasure"
3: deletion by an act of expunging or erasing [syn:
{expunction}, {expunging}, {erasure}]
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
ERASURE, contracts, evidence. The obliteration of a writing; it will render
it void or not under the same circumstances as an interlineation. (q.v.)
Vide 5 Pet. S. C. R. 560; 11 Co. 88; 4 Cruise, Dig. 368; 13 Vin. Ab. 41;
Fitzg. 207; 5 Bing. R. 183; 3 C. & P. 65; 2 Wend. R. 555; 11 Conn. R. 531; 5
M. R. 190; 2 L. R. 291 3 L. R. 56; 4 L. R. 270.
2. Erasures and interlineations are presumed to have been made after
the execution of a deed, unless the contrary be proved. 1 Dall. 67; 1 Pet.
169; 4 Bin. 1; 10 Serg. & R. 64, 170, 419; 16 Serg. & R. 44.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "erasure":
abbreviation, ablation, abrasion, abrasive, abridgment, attrition,
blackout, blocking, blot, blotting, blotting out, blue-penciling,
bowdlerization, buffing, burnishing, cancel, cancellation,
censoring, censorship, chafe, chafing, deletion, dematerialization,
departure, detrition, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion,
dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, dressing, eclipse, editing,
effacement, elimination, erosion, evanescence, evaporation,
expunction, expurgation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading,
filing, fretting, galling, going, grazing, grinding, limation,
melting, obliteration, occultation, omission, passing, polishing,
rasping, rubbing away, sandblasting, sanding, scouring, scrape,
scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, shining,
smoothing, striking, vanishing, vanishing point, washing out, wear,
wearing away, wipe, wiping out
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