What's the difference between erasure and obliteration?

Erasure


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As marginalized people, we have always faced erasure: either our story is never told, or it is told by everyone but us.
  • (2) The possibility remains, however, that the impairment seen in these tasks reflects the requirement for erasure of information from previous trials within each daily session, rather than the duration of the retention interval.
  • (3) A: Facebook didn't have a comment on Tuesday, but it does already have mechanisms that let people remove data, and sources there say it "already complies with the right to erasure set out in certain data protection legislation".
  • (4) In contrast, it is normal in all aspects of growth, in the sequence of morphogenetic stages, in spore formation, in the capacity to rapidly recapitulate morphogenesis, and in the erasure event and subsequent program of dedifferentiation.
  • (5) The erasure of indigenous people explains why Dakota Access was rerouted from upstream of Bismarck south to Standing Rock.
  • (6) The ‘erasure’ of women killed by police Facebook Twitter Pinterest A #BlackLivesMatter protest marches through the posh city of Beverly Hills.
  • (7) When cAMP is added after the erasure event, it causes a low, transient increase in the level of 16G1 RNA.
  • (8) Those who choose to view Wearing’s sculpture as championing the erasure of fathers and broken Britain miss the point.
  • (9) But it cautions: "Our concern is about how difficult (or impossible) this may be to achieve in practice and how it could lead individuals to believe falsely that they can achieve the absolute erasure of information about them.
  • (10) This is going to sound quite appalling, but nobody in my circle of friends in 1986 would have admitted liking Erasure, or would have been seen dead going out and buying a Boy George CD.
  • (11) The failure to highlight and demand accountability for the countless black women killed by police over the past two decades,” the report observes, “leaves black women unnamed and thus under-protected in the face of their continued vulnerability to racialized police violence.” A lawyer for Anderson’s family, David Malik, who has been involved in many Ohio cases involving police violence, told the Guardian that in his experience the erasure of those stories was typical.
  • (12) "The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists' questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, cancelled films – that thought is a nightmare.
  • (13) Human figure drawings were scored on seven characteristics popularly attributed to juvenile delinquents, i.e., head size, shading, and three indicators of emotional conflict, i.e., transparencies, omissions, and erasures.
  • (14) A rapid method of identification by using computerized videotape erasure of mutilating injuries is presented.
  • (15) The rapid reduction in the level of gp80 transcript which can be effected by the addition of cAMP prior to the erasure event in wild-type cells is also retained by HI4 cells well after the erasure event.
  • (16) I mean, at school the girls all went out and bought Erasure without any issue."
  • (17) "We think the most responsible service providers will offer the right to erasure.
  • (18) The erasure of the war began in 1972 with the granting of amnesty to the Pakistani army officers who led the killings.
  • (19) Growth-associated polypeptides begin to be resynthesized and development-associated polypeptides exhibit dramatic decreases in rate of synthesis at different times throughout the first 240 min in erasure medium.
  • (20) Mortgage worries; a banal sex life; a clutching fear of erasure from cultural and public life; and, as Sawyer puts it in her wonderful book, that sudden desire to change career and become a “midwife-cum-cabbie-stroke-gardener”.

Obliteration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
  • (2) The dilemma focuses on whether the obliteration or removal of the cystic areas will benefit or cause further deterioration of the patient's condition.
  • (3) The peculiar configuration of the pneumocephalus is attributed to the partial obliteration of the subarachnoid space due to the increased intracranial pressure.
  • (4) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
  • (5) It is concluded that obliteration of oesophageal varices by endoscopic sclerotherapy and propranolol may be more effective in the long-term control of variceal recurrence than treatment with sclerotherapy only.
  • (6) Practolole, a selective beta1-adrenoblocking agent, potentiates the effect of cordarone on the myocardium and also obliterates the difference between the effects of the drug in animals under general anesthesia and in free behavior.
  • (7) Neutral dextran clearances for radii greater than 30 A were elevated during the PEAK period, and, concurrently, there was extensive intraglomerular microthrombosis, obliteration of foot processes, and disruption of filtration slit diaphragms.
  • (8) Obliteration of the endolymphatic duct resulted in endolymphatic hydrops of varying severity in 55% of the rats, after survival times varying from one to five months.
  • (9) Obliteration of the right endolymphatic sac was performed by Kimura's method in 57 guinea pigs with normal hearing and vestibular function.
  • (10) Soft tissue obliteration with autograft bone paste is the most versatile and commonly used technique.
  • (11) Obliteration of the empty sella with an extradural silicone balloon via the transsphenoidal approach seemed to have been effective for headache and visual complaints of primary empty sella syndrome which did not respond to medical therapy.
  • (12) Discoloration and pulpal obliteration were the major manifestations.
  • (13) The treatment was almost only in those angiopathies successful, in which the fluorescein angiography showed a preponderance of the hyperpermeability over the obliterating process of retinal capillaries.
  • (14) In conclusion, obliteration of the inner margin of the central vein and the opacity that decreased the radiolucency extending to the peripheral side of the upper lobe bronchus are strongly suggestive of interlobar lymph node enlargement.
  • (15) The veins which are not compressable during erection can eventually be obliterated under radiological control with the help of mini-coils.
  • (16) Direct injection of gastric varices is difficult because of increased postsclerotherapy bleeding, but sclerosis of esophageal varices often leads to their obliteration by the caudad flow of sclerosant.
  • (17) The prerequisites to achieve this goal are: the radical exenteration of the mastoid, antrum and epitympanum, the maximal reduction of the volume of the cavity by extensive lateral removal of bone and the adequate shaping of the cavity walls by obliteration of the bone pockets.
  • (18) In 20-35 per cent of short (up to 05 cm) urethral stenosis or cicatricial obliterations of urethra it was found advisable to start the treatment with nonoperative technique.
  • (19) Polypropylene mesh is then passed down the laparoscope, placed into the defect to obliterate the space, and the edges of the peritoneum are then reapproximated.
  • (20) A combined morphological and physiological study on the effect of saccus obliteration on the cochlea and the vestibular labyrinth of the rat is presented.