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How to spell erasure

Erasure is spelled E-R-A-S-U-R-E.

hear ite·ras·ure/ɪ'reɪʃər/nounRules and real life

What it means: The act of removing something written or drawn.

In a sentence: The magician's erasure made the drawing disappear.

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Same family: eraser, erased, erasing, expunge, delete. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Erasure” comes from the Latin verb *eradere*, meaning “to scrape out,” which reflects how people once removed writing by physically scraping ink from parchment. Over time, the word shifted from literal scraping to include the abstract idea of deleting or removing information, memories, or even cultures.

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