Meaning of EFFACE
| Pronunciation: | | i'feys
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- [v] remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
- [v] remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
- [v] make inconspicuous; "efface onself"
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| | Synonyms: | | erase, obliterate, rub out, score out, wipe off, wipe out |
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| | See Also: | | blur, cancel, cut out, delete, dim, humble, rub, scratch out, slur, sponge | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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. --Bacon.
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | annul, black out, blot, blot out, cancel, cross out, dele, delete, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exclude, expunge, extirpate, obliterate, raze, rub out, rule out, scratch, scratch out, sponge, sponge out, strike out, wipe out |
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