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verb

Efface v. t. (past & past part. effaced; pres. part. effacing)

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.

To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away. "Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received."

Synonyms: 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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Etymology of 'Efface'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Efface" Quotes from Famous Books

... for a sister-in-law and two nephews who were dependent on him, flung himself into a post-chaise and started for Italy. Dorlange felt that this egotism of sorrow filled the measure of the wrong already done to him; and he endeavored to efface from his heart even the recollection of a friendship which sympathy ...

— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac

... said it a hundred times over," writes George Sand, "and it is all in vain that you retract; nothing will now efface that sentence: 'Love is the only thing in the world that counts.' It may be that it is a divine faculty which we lose and then find again, that we must cultivate, or that we have to buy with cruel suffering, with painful ...

— George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings • Rene Doumic

... upbraid thee? Could I restore to thee what thou hast lost; efface this cursed stain; snatch thee from the jaws of this fiend; I would do it. Yet what will avail my efforts? I have not arms with which to contend with so ...

— Wieland; or The Transformation - An American Tale • Charles Brockden Brown

... side, raises the penis in his left hand, and with the right introduces the instrument, previously warmed and oiled, into the meatus. He then pushes it very gently onwards, at the same time stretching the penis with the left hand, just so far as to efface any wrinkles in the mucous membrane, till the point reaches the bulbous portion. The axis of the instrument, which at first for convenience was over the left groin, has now gradually been approaching the middle line. When this is reached, the instrument should be raised ...

— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

... of Dante; never has there been a darkness so profound that it could conceal this star of promise from Italian eyes; neither the profanations of tyrants and Jesuits, nor the violations of foreign invaders, have been able to efface it. "Sanctum Poetae nomen ...

— Italy, the Magic Land • Lilian Whiting

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