efface

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.