| Main Entry: | expunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | erasure |
Synonyms: |
blotting out, canceling, cancellation, crossing out, deleting, deletion, erasing, expunging |
| Main Entry: | erasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cancellation |
Synonyms: |
blotting out, canceling, crossing out, deleting, deletion, effacing, eradication, expunction, expunging, obliteration, rubbing out, scratching out, wiping out |
| Main Entry: | annihilation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abolition |
Synonyms: |
abolishment, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, dissolution, erasure, expunction, invalidation, negation, nullification, retraction, voidance |
| Main Entry: | deletion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | erasure |
Synonyms: |
cancellation, crossing out, cut, expunction, expunging, remotion, removal |
| Main Entry: | obliteration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | erasure |
Synonyms: |
blotting out, canceling, cancellation, crossing out, deleting, deletion, effacing, eradication, expunction, expunging, rubbing out, scratching out, wiping out |
| Concept: | [Suppression of sign] Obliteration. |
| Category: | 1. Natural Means |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
obliteration; erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot; tabula rasa; effacement, extinction.
-verbs
efface, obliterate, erase, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge., be effaced; leave no trace; "leave not a rack behind."
-adjectives
obliterated; out of print; printless; leaving no trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
-phrases
delenda est Carthago [Cato].
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Antonyms: |
record |
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