Home › Words › E › erasionerasionerasion means the act of erasing; a rubbing out or obliteration; erasure.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, erasion ranks #7,707 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Latin ērādō (“to erase, to scrape”) + -siō, equivalent to erase + -ion.nounThe act of erasing; a rubbing out or obliteration; erasure.e.g.“If erasions are found in a text occuring verbatim in another author who continues the material erased, then without a doubt that first author in the particular instance is not original.” — 1949, Franciscan Studies - Volume 9, page 105:The surgical removal of tissue by scraping.e.g.“A very considerable time must elapse before an operation can assert that a case of excision or erasion of the knee is thoroughly successful.” — 1888, A. Marmaduke Shield, “Erasion of the Knee Joint”, in Annals of Surgery, volume 7, page 117:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).