1.
a correction made by erasing
there were many erasures in the typescript
2.
a surface area where something has been erased
another word had been written over the erasure
3.
deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink. Staying still, and being calm will actually make the body float in the quicksand because the body is less dense than the quicksand is.
