See erasure on Wiktionary
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "state of having been erased",
"word": "bura-bura"
}
],
"word": "erasure"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "ērāsūre",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "participle form",
"head": "ērāsūre"
},
"expansion": "ērāsūre",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin participle forms",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "ērāsūrus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"vocative masculine singular of ērāsūrus"
],
"links": [
[
"ērāsūrus",
"erasurus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"participle",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "erasure"
}
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