effaces
- present tense form of efface (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Most essentially, “Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through,” not unlike Fleischmann’s first book “Syzygy, Beauty,” effaces lines of genre as a strategy to efface, or disrupt, lines of self and gender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2019
Classical realism is sometimes accused of effacing its own literary labor; the cost of Tokarczuk’s flâneurial freedom is that it effaces the labor of travel.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018
Indeed, each film effaces the collective aspects of the assassination research by presenting the historiographic challenges of the period as essentially the work of one man.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2017
Abstraction effaces the sore toes and false starts and noisy crowds of a particular place and date.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2012
Nay, more, when he read a long letter from Antipater, full of accusations against her, 'Antipater,' he said, 'does not know that one tear of a mother effaces a thousand such letters as these.'
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
