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efface


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Definition:
to erase, blot out, or destroy

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Almost every night they were brought out; almost every night some pencil marks were effaced, and others were substituted.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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He could only think of her as triumphant, successful in her menace of a wholly useless remorse never to be effaced.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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There was nothing more for him but to efface himself, to destroy the unsuccessful structure of his life, to throw it away, mocked at by the gods.

Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Translated by Hilda Rosner), p.88 (1951)
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on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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