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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.
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