Rasure

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Noun

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Rasure, n. [L. rasura, fr. radere, rasum, to scrape, to shave. See Rase, v.].

The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration. [1913 Webster]
A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure. Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]

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ROGET THESAURUS

Rasure

Obliteration

N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.

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