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1. WordNet® 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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Erasure \E*ra"sure\ (?; 135), n. [From Erase.]
   1. The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. the place where something has been erased.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. 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. 



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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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