Effaced

Examples

• 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.
• Why, too, should he faint at an allusion to the half-effaced initials upon his arm, and die of fright when he had a letter from Fordingham? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The sharpness must be gone--the point, the poignancy--the deep imprint must be softened away and effaced? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When a record is to be effaced from a cylinder, it is turned off smooth on a sort of lathe, and the cutting tool or knife for this purpose is also made of sapphire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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