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The act of pretending something was never there, fooling everyone except yourself.
means To remove writing, marks, or data so completely that no trace remains.
from From Latin eradere, to scrape out, built from radere, to scratch, the same root that gave us razor and abrasion.
Rubber rootsErasers were named for rubbing out, hence rubber itself.
Never truly goneDeleted files often linger until overwritten by new data.
Paper damageHard erasing thins paper and leaves telltale ghost marks.