🧽efface

verb
/ɪˈfeɪs/

Meaning

To erase or wipe out something; to make oneself inconspicuous.

Example Sentences

Time had effaced the letters on the old gravestone.

Example Expressions

efface oneself

Synonyms

erase, obliterate, remove, eliminate

Antonyms

preserve, retain

Collocations

efface memory, efface marks, efface oneself

Related Vocabularies

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