erasure
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a correction made by erasing
there were many erasures in the typescript
Types & categories
- correction hypernym
Related & opposite
- rub out derivation
Sense 2 noun
a surface area where something has been erased
another word had been written over the erasure
Types & categories
- surface area hypernym
Related & opposite
- rub out derivation
Sense 3 noun
deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
Types & categories
- deletion hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rub out |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | correction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rub out |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | surface area |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | erase |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rub out |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | excise |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | deletion |