Hypertext Webster Gateway: "efface"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Efface \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

efface
v 1: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the
memory of the time in the camps" [syn: {obliterate}, {wipe
out}]
2: make inconspicuous: "efface onself"
3: remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the
formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!" [syn: {erase}, {rub
out}, {score out}, {wipe off}]


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