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Efface [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To destroy a figure on the surface of any thing, whether painted or carved, so as to render it invisible or not distinguishable; as, to efface the letters on a monument.

2. To blot out; to erase, strike or scratch out, so as to destroy or render illegible; as, to efface a writing; to efface a name.

3. To destroy any impression on the mind; to wear away; as, to efface the image of a person in the mind; to efface ideas or thoughts; to efface gratitude.

4. To deface is to injure or impair a figure; to effect is to rub out or destroy, so as to render invisible.

Efface [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

2. To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.

Effaceable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being effaced.

Effaced [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rubbed or worn out; destroyed, as a figure or impression.

Effaced [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Efface

Effacement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

Disappearance Roget’s Thesaurus §449

N. disappearance, evanescence, eclipse, # occultation, departure, exit, vanishing point, dissolving views

V. disappear, vanish, dissolve, fade, melt away, pass, go, avaunt, evaporate, vaporize, be gone, leave no trace, leave "not a rack behind", go off the stage, suffer an eclipse, undergo an eclipse, retire from sight, be lost to view, pass out of sight, lose sight of, efface

Adj. disappearing, evanescent, missing, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, gone

Int. vanish, disappear, avaunt, get lost, get out of here, words relating to the intellectual faculties

Oblivion Roget’s Thesaurus §506

N. oblivion, obliviousness, lethe, forgetfulness, amnesia, obliteration of, insensibility to the past, short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory, decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory, waters of lethe, waters of oblivion, amnesty, general pardon, repressed memory

V. forget, be forgetful, fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion, have a short memory, have no head, forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the other, slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the memory, lose, lose sight of, fail to recall, not be able to recall, unlearn, efface, discharge from the memory, consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the capulets, think no more of, cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from, let bygones be bygones

Adj. forgotten, unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of mind, buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion, clean forgotten, gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection, forgetful, oblivious, mindless, lethean, insensible to the past, heedless

Phr. non mi ricordo, the memory failing, the memory deserting one, being at (or in) fault, 2. to the future

Obliteration Roget’s Thesaurus §552

N. obliteration, # erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction

V. efface, obliterate, erase, raze|, rase, expunge, cancel, blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out, wipe off, rub off, wipe away, deface, render illegible, draw the pen through, apply the sponge, be effaced &c, leave no trace, "leave not a rack behind."

Adj. obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten

Phr. delenda est carthago

Int. dele, out with it