If something is erased or rubbed out, it has been effaced. Teachers get annoyed to find that someone has effaced the blackboard even the part clearly marked, "Do Not Erase!"
To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible;
Verb
remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
Verb
remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
Verb
make inconspicuous; "efface onself"
v. t.
To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or
inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase;
to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a
monument, or the inscription on a coin.
v. t.
To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.
Efface
Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received.
To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible;
Usage Examples
Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.