efface
verb (used with object)
to wipe out; do away with; expunge.
had effaced
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past perfectof efface.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He quickly, however, recovered from this startled feeling, and inwardly thanked his friend for having depicted so closely that dear, good, loving face, before time had effaced it from his memory.
From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. II. by Berthold Auerbach
She needed no one to remind her of that, and that grief perhaps had effaced the fault.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
My tears, which I could not restrain, have blotted half your letter: I wish they had effaced the whole and that I had returned it to you in that condition.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle
The long course of mortifications which she had had to endure at the hands of Diane de Poitiers "had effaced in her all distinctions between good and evil."
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
Time had effaced the remembrance of what they had called her folly when she married Patoff, but the breach had never been healed.
From Paul Patoff by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
