rasure

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ra=sure

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]

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.