English to English verb
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remove completely from recognition or memory |  | Example: efface the memory of the time in the camps
source: wordnet30
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make inconspicuous |  | Example: efface oneself
source: wordnet30
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remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing |  | Example: Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
source: wordnet30
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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. |  | source: webster1913
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