efface
verb (used with object)
to wipe out; do away with; expunge.
will efface
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future tenseof efface.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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President George Bain Everitt gave assurance, however, that earnings during the current three months will efface this entire deficit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah! that speech of his has sunk deep in my memory; no time will efface it.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
"So time will efface our little lives and sorrows," he mused, "and we shall be as nothing in the indistinguishable past."
From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Indeed: there will pass years and centuries, and time will efface the very memory of thousands and thousands of those living now.
From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by I. A. Bunin
The ethnologist ought to look well into this matter, and treat it without regard to change of language or names, as time will efface and create both anew.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
