efface
verb (used with object)
to wipe out; do away with; expunge.
have effaced
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present perfectof efface.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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Anal is the Freudian word for this sort of heap making, but Stone is unembarrassed and apparently unaware that the details have effaced the drama of Freud's life.
From Time Magazine Archive
He daily learned rich lessons which he would not have effaced for all the gold and pomp of earth.
From Allegories of Life by Mrs. J. S. Adams
I have spared your globe from combustion, which would have effaced those footprints,—in order that the characters might be plainly decipherable to the end of Time....
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
"I don't feel," McAllen observed mildly, "that I really have effaced myself, either as a human being or as a scientist."
From Gone Fishing by James H. Schmitz
The Junction mills have effaced the more beautiful and poetic features of the scene.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
