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efface Definition

ef·face (ə fās, i-)

transitive verb -·faced, -·fac·ing

  1. to rub out, as from a surface; erase; wipe out; obliterate time effaced the memory
  2. to make (oneself) inconspicuous; withdraw (oneself) from notice

Etymology: Fr effacer < e- (see ef-) + face: see face

efface Related Forms

ef·face·able adjective ef·face·ment noun ef·facer noun

efface Synonyms

efface

v.

rub out, obliterate, erase; see cancel 1, destroy 1, erase 1. See syn. study at erase.

efface Usage Examples

Object

  • difference: The virtual reality is forcing to replace the reality itself by effacing the classical differences between reality and possibility.
  • distinction: The idea was to efface any distinction between speakers and ' audience ' : all were equal participants.
  • impression: Years must pass away in order to efface the impression which was then, I think indelibly, stamped upon my mind.
  • memory: Blair evidently hopes that a humanitarian war will efface the memories of the ' war for oil ' in Iraq.
  • sin: In a very deep sense, tho not in the deepest, the love of the penitent effaces the sin.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: At the same time this strategy does not efface local cultural originality, the specific imagery bound to certain localities.
  • fully: However, when she examined me, I was disappointed to hear that I was only 3cm dilated and not fully effaced.
  • much: Hotels, marinas and cruise-ship ports have sprung up to accommodate them, effacing much of the region's famous coastline.
  • altogether: Have chances for real participation and benefit in the information economy been effaced altogether?
  • deliberately: Throughout the Stalin era, Gramsci's memory was deliberately effaced.
  • progressively: As Ellul puts it, 'The technological environment is progressively effacing the other two.

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