English Explanatory Dictionary

under erasure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep_phrase
  1. Of a piece of text, written and struck through; hence, figuratively in some sense both present and absent.

Word forms

under erasure

Etymology

Perhaps a calque of French sous rature

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