efface
verb (used with object)
to wipe out; do away with; expunge.
effaceable
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a word derived from
efface.
Example Sentences
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The Minneapolis Journal said the mob put “an effaceable stain on the name of Minnesota.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2020
And if his fault was effaceable, might not her husband's be effaceable as well?
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
The primal imperfection of human nature is only effaceable by knowledge and persistent endeavor.
From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake
Do not regard in the one the effaceable characters in which it is written, nor be dazzled by the brilliancy of the other.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
Every effaceable trace and relic of national history was carefully wiped away,—the system of administration, the physical divisions of the country, the classes of society, the corporations, the weights and measures, the calendar.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
