erasures
Signs of correction
Erasures is the plural of erasure—acts of erasing or the marks left behind when something has been rubbed out.
You can see erasures on a document where someone corrected mistakes.
The word extends to deliberate removal from history or discourse: the erasures of women's contributions to science, cultural erasure of indigenous peoples.
In poetry, erasure is a technique of selectively removing words from an existing text to create new meaning.
Removal of content
- removalAct of taking away
- expungingRemoving completely from existence
- effacementAct of erasing completely
- wipingRubbing to clean
clearing · obliteration · excision · striking · crossing-out · blotting · redaction · blanking
Utter, complete destruction
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- ruinationState of complete destruction
disappearance · decimation · vanishing · razing · extermination · extirpation · effacement · elimination
Fixing of mistakes
- proofreadingChecking text for mistakes
- markupAdded percentage for profit
- revisionsAlterations to improve
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
copyediting · redrafting · reworking · rewrite · amendment · rectification · emendation · polishing
Stopping noise or dissent
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- invisibilityState of being unseen
- whitewashingConcealing unpleasant facts
censorship · forgetting · denial · exclusion · omission · redaction · cover-up · sanitization
deletion
Removal of content
- removalAct of taking away
- expungingRemoving completely from existence
- effacementAct of erasing completely
wiping · clearing · obliteration · excision · striking · crossing-out · blotting · redaction · blanking · voiding
annihilation
Utter, complete destruction
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
ruination · disappearance · decimation · vanishing · razing · extermination · extirpation · effacement · elimination · abolition
correction
Fixing of mistakes
- proofreadingChecking text for mistakes
- markupAdded percentage for profit
- revisionsAlterations to improve
manuscript · copyediting · redrafting · reworking · rewrite · amendment · rectification · emendation · polishing · tweaking
silencing
Stopping noise or dissent
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- invisibilityState of being unseen
whitewashing · censorship · forgetting · denial · exclusion · omission · redaction · cover-up · sanitization · expurgation
- forensic documentsdocument fraud, handwriting analysis, signature verification, exemplars, forged documents
- Whiteboard Elementsdiagrams, sketches, arrows, circles, boxes
- Torah scribessofer, Torah scroll, Torah scrolls, quill, parchment scrolls
- handwritingcursive, block letters, penmanship, print letters, legible
- manuscriptscodex, codices, folio, folios, papyri
erasuresadditions
Things joined to existing wholes
insertions · inscriptions · inclusions · writings · entries
erasurespreservations
Acts of keeping safe
retentions · conservations · commemorations · memorializations · recordings
erasuresrevelations
Surprising facts made known
exposures · disclosures · uncoverings · unveilings · appearances
- cultural erasureDestroying group identity markers
- memory erasureEliminating stored recollections