Efface

[ef·face]

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!"

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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.

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

Ef*face" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Effaced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Effacing .] [F. effacer; pref. es- (L. ex) + face face; prop., to destroy the face or form. See Face, and cf. Deface.] 1. 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. 2. To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.

Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received.

Syn. -- To blot out; expunge; erase; obliterate; cancel; destroy. -- Efface, Deface. To deface is to injure or impair a figure; to efface is to rub out or destroy, so as to render invisible.

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.

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Usage Examples

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It 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.