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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

A contemporary cousin was said to have effaced France from the map of Europe; I do not think we were quite so daring.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh

An English teacher of music would have effaced herself—would have shaken with nervousness and scowled at her pupils.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

Years of marches and countermarches, of battle and foray, at the head of his Ostrogothic warriors, may well have effaced much of the knowledge thus acquired.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

But if he had merely caught her to him with one shuddering cry of love and rage—that would have been worth all his precautions!—would have effaced the nightmare, and filled her heart.

From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.