Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun erasure
3 senses of erasure
Sense 1
erasure -- (a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in the typescript")
=> correction -- (something substituted for an error)
Sense 2
erasure -- (a surface area where something has been erased; "another word had been written over the erasure")
=> area, expanse, surface area -- (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area")
Sense 3
expunction, expunging, erasure -- (deletion by an act of expunging or erasing)
=> deletion -- (the act of deleting something written or printed)