Word Meanings - EFFACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: EFFACE

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. Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received. Bacon. Syn. -- To blot out; expunge; erase; obliterate; cancel; destroy. -- Efface, Deface. To deface is to injure or impair a figure; to efface is to rub out or destroy, so as to render invisible.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EFFACE)

• Annihilate
• Abolish
• destroy
• bring to nought
• uproot
• eradicate
• nullify
• exterminate
• end
• extinguish
• demolish
• obliterate
• efface
• Blot out
• Erase
• cancel
• expunge
• wipe out
• Cancel
• Efface
• blot out
• annul
• quash
• rescind
• repeal
• revoke
• abrogate
• discharge
• erase
• abolish
• countervail
• Obliterate
• blot
• Expunge

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