efface
verb (used with object)
to wipe out; do away with; expunge.
has effaced
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present perfectof efface (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Possibly there has never been a King in all history that has effaced himself so completely as has King Vittorio.
From Time Magazine Archive
"No, ma'm'selle, he has not wit enough for that; he has a tender heart, and I was cruel to him, and of course being desolate from my unkindness, he has effaced himself."
From Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
I shall be happy when I hear that he has effaced his fault; but I wish for nothing more, I desire nothing more, even if my soul had to suffer yet.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
But the record fair That memory keeps, of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
From English Poets of the Eighteenth Century by Ernest Bernbaum
Since then twenty experiences of the same kind have followed each other in his intellectual experience, yet none has effaced the deep impression made upon him by these lectures.
From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
