erasing

Meaning of erasing

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. rub out or remove (writing or marks).
    graffiti had been erased from the wall

late 16th century (originally as a heraldic term meaning ‘represent the head or limb of an animal with a jagged edge’): from Latin eras- ‘scraped away’, from the verb eradere, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out’ + radere ‘scrape’.

Information about erasing

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of erasing

eras-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • erasing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

erasing synonyms

Meaning remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), especially by drawing a line through it:

delete

Meaning decide or announce that (a planned event) will not take place:

cancel

Meaning cause (a memory or emotion) to disappear completely:

efface

Meaning obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant):

expunge

Meaning charge excise on (goods):

excise

Meaning take (something) away or off from the position occupied:

remove

Meaning cancel (something, especially a postage stamp) to prevent further use:

obliterate

Meaning completely remove or get rid of (something):

eliminate

Meaning examine (a book, film, etc.) officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it:

censor

Meaning edit (text) for publication:

redact

Meaning remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective:

bowdlerize

Meaning delete or mark (a part of a text) for deletion:

dele

Anagrams of erasing

angries, earings, gainers, graines, reagins, regains, reginas, searing, seraing, seringa

Words that rhyme with erasing

sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing, misbiasing

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