efface
verb (used with object)
to wipe out; do away with; expunge.
effaced
Example Sentences
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If anything, I think he speaks to an aspect of Silicon Valley that maybe has been effaced more recently—it’s not our popular image of the industry today, where it’s something much more malign.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2025
But that timing dates back to when broadcast television dominated — both in viewership and Emmys contenders — in a way that has been effaced by cable television and streaming services.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
And the shutdown is also an opening to acknowledge society's dependence on care giving labor and confront the ways this work — in families, schools, retirement communities — has been disparaged, effaced and desperately under-compensated.
From Salon ● May 29, 2021
Lurie, an Eastern European immigrant with Muslim roots, was orphaned in New York and had his identity effaced and remade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2019
João de Barros was able to claim in 1555 that Hercules’ pillars, ‘which he set up at our very doorstep, as it were,...have been effaced from human memory and thrust into silence and oblivion’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
