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Answer for the clue "Remove by erasing or crossing out ", 9 letters:
expunging

Word definitions for expunging in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
expunging \expunging\ n. deletion by an act of expunging or erasing. Syn: expunction, erasure.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is expunged; a deletion. vb. (present participle of expunge English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. deletion by an act of expunging or erasing [syn: expunction , erasure ]

Usage examples of expunging.

His stomach was gurgling, still expunging itself of the vile water he'd drank from a ditch many hours before.

If he was expunging raw hate or an old sorrow, there was no sign of it.

Less than a year and a half before this hearing, Burnett had issued the order expunging John Mark Byers’s conviction for having threatened to kill his ex-wife.

This young man demonstrated remarkable resource and seriously disabled the madman, in fact expunging his life.

He could feel the energy purging, expunging the decay, and then he could sense the mending, that wonderful warmth of regenerating tissue.