Efface
[ɪ'feɪs] or [ɪ'fes]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Obliterate, erase, expunge, blot, cancel, rub out, wipe out, scratch out, rub off, blot out, strike out.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Erase, obliterate, eradicate, destroy, blot_out, cancel, expunge
ANT:restore, revive, delineate, Imprint, portray
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Definition
v.t. to destroy the surface of a thing: to rub out: to obliterate wear away.—adj. Efface′able that can be rubbed out.—n. Efface′ment.
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Examples
- No effort of Shirley's or Caroline's could efface it thence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Everyone who had joined him was eager now to attack him, and so efface that error. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even to efface herself from the country means were required. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. Plato. The Republic.
- In the great city all traces of them might be most speedily and most surely effaced. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Here, and here only, the traces of the past lay deep--too deep to be effaced. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She no longer meant to destroy them: that intention had been effaced by the quick corrosion of Mrs. Peniston's words. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and flatterers: in less than a month, my image will be effaced from her heart. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In her will she killed him as he stood, effaced him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In summer, when he joined them for a Sunday at Newport or Southampton, he was even more effaced and silent than in winter. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Because he sees them happy with it, making a good use of it, effacing the old rust and tarnish on the money. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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