efface
verb (used with object)
to wipe out; do away with; expunge.
uneffaced
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a word derived from
efface.
Example Sentences
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What has been fancied a noose is only the former outline of the horse's foot and limb, uneffaced.
From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin
She knew her baby through his manly stature and mature features, less from his likeness to his father than from certain uneffaced traces of infantine form and expression.
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
The water-patterns which the 'Prentices had trickled out on the pavements early in the morning, remained uneffaced by human feet.
From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
Lies eighteen centuries uneffaced, While many a page of bard and sage, Deemed once mankind's immortal gain, Lost from Time's ark, leaves no more mark Than a keel's furrow through the main.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
There, still uneffaced, though the gold threads are all tarnished and ragged, are the ominous words on the silk of the she-devil's love-token!
From What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
