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adj. - Capable of being effaced.

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Usage examples (38)
  • He makes his lists (charts, actually for him) in erasable ink.
  • For Xerox, however, this isn't a cinematic trick — it's a new technology they call erasable paper.
  • She doodled on her desk in erasable marker.
  • The decks work with either BD-R or BD-RE ( "erasable") blank media.
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  • The "irascible" (quick-tempered; easily angered) supervisor was angry to discover his message was gone from an "erasable" (able to be effaced or rubbed out) chalkboard.
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