extersion

English

Etymology

From Latin extergere, extersum (“to wipe out”), from ex (“out”) + tergere (“to wipe or rub off”).

Noun

extersion

(obsolete) The act of wiping or rubbing out.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for extersion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

exertions, exsertion

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