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3. erase, cancel, rub out, scrape out; delete, Print. dele, blue-pencil, black out, cross out, mark off, x out.
4. uproot, unroot, pull out by the roots, pull up, pluck up, root out, outroot, deracinate; pull out, draw out, tear out, take out, extract; unearth, excavate, dig up or out, grub up or out; weed out, rake out. eradication, n. 1. extirpation, total destruction, annihilation, discreation, expunction, extermination, abolition, abolishment; obliteration, effacement; removal, elimination, liquidation, purgation; extinguishment, extinction, putting an end to, bringing to an end, leaving no vestige or trace; termination, dissolution, check; quashing, suppression, squelching, crushing, vanquishment, squashing; overthrow, overturn, overwhelming, subversion, defeat, conquering.
2. demolition, ravagement, devastation, desolation; ruin, ruination.
3. erasure, erasion, cancellation, rubbing out, scraping out; deletion, Print, dele, blacking out, marking off.
4. uprooting, unrooting, pulling up, plucking up, pulling out by the roots, rooting out, outrooting, deracination; pulling out, drawing out, wrenching out, tearing out, avulsion, taking out, extraction, evulsion; extrication, disengagement, dislodgment, disentanglement; unearthing, excavation, digging up or out, grubbing up or out; weeding out, raking out. erase, v. 1. expunge, eradicate, rub or wipe off, rub or scrape out; delete, cancel, scratch, cross out, strike out, blot out, mark over or through, draw through, edit out, blue-pencil, Print, dele.
2. obliterate, efface, destroy, extirpate, remove, dissolve, eliminate, get rid of, do away with, Inf. bleep out. erasure, n. 1. eradication, expunction, rubbing or wiping off, rubbing or scraping out; deletion, cancellation, cassation, crossing out or through; effacement, extirpation, obliteration, elimination, removal.
2. void, blank or empty space, Inf bleep; rub, abrasion, attrition; blot, spot, mark, blue mark, Print. dele, strikeover. erect, adj. 1. upright, stand-up, standing up, un-recumbent; at attention, stiff-backed; raised, elevated, rampant, reared up; vertical, perpendicular, plumb, straight.
-v. 2. build, construct, raise, put up, pitch; assemble, put together, hammer together; fabricate, make.
3. upright, lift up, upraise, raise aloft, pry; heave, upheave, rear, uprear; straighten, right, stand up; hoist, mount, elevate.
4. establish, set up, found; institute, constitute; create, form, organize.
erection, n. 1. construction, fabrication, raising.
2. building, structure, framework, edifice, house.
3. Physiol, tumescence, tumidity, turgescence, tur-gidity; distention, swelling. eremite, n. 1. anchorite, anchoret, hermit, recluse, solitary, Islam, marabout, Islam, santon, Obs. beadsman; nun, anchoress, ancress, hermitess, Obs. hermi-tress; troglodyte, cave dweller, incluse; stylite, pillarist, pillar-saint; ascetic, celibate, monk, monastic, holy man.
2. loner, isolate, isolato, solitudinarian, Inf. introvert, Inf. lone wolf. eremitic, adj. 1. hermitic, hermitical, Rare, her-mitish, anchoritic, stylitic, troglodytic.
2. isolated, recluse, reclusive, sequestered; solitary, lone, single, solitudinarian.
3. ascetic, austere, self-disciplined, hermitlike, celi bate, puritanical.
4. outcast, desolate, forlorn, lonely.
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