erasing
Meaning of erasing
- 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:
Meaning decide or announce that (a planned event) will not take place:
Meaning cause (a memory or emotion) to disappear completely:
Meaning obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant):
Meaning charge excise on (goods):
Meaning take (something) away or off from the position occupied:
Meaning cancel (something, especially a postage stamp) to prevent further use:
Meaning completely remove or get rid of (something):
Meaning examine (a book, film, etc.) officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it:
Meaning edit (text) for publication:
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:
Meaning delete or mark (a part of a text) for deletion:
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