efface
verb (used with object)
to wipe out; do away with; expunge.
effaces
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present tense formof efface (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But some may feel that the warm welcome Omar receives from the enslaved workers at Owen’s plantation effaces the harsher reality of the character’s circumstance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
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
It’s an enormous story, one that, in the telling, nearly effaces Wilkerson’s presence onstage.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 8, 2017
And, while this is not a performance that effaces the memory of Antony Sher, Ian McKellen or Jonathan Slinger, it has its own insidious power.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2012
In this cup is His blood, which was shed to bless us; this cup is the holy remembrance which effaces; this cup is the bond by which we shall be united!
From A Christian But a Roman by Mór Jókai
