efface
verb (used with object)
to wipe out; do away with; expunge.
effacing
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present participleof efface.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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These animals, the creation of inspired puppet designer Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell, are fluidly deployed by a team of graceful puppeteers, who preserve the essential dignity of these creatures without effacing their ferocity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
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
Apart from all this, maybe the most potent force effacing gay culture is an understandable, if still covert, impulse to jettison the trauma of the queer legacy.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2018
For as long as humans have lived with symbols we have created strategies for effacing or revaluing them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2015
Then I saw a shadow flit across her face, and she drew back against the wall, effacing herself, as a step sounded outside and Maxim came into the room.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
