Associations to the word «Efface»

Wiktionary

EFFACE, verb. (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
EFFACE, verb. (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
EFFACE, verb. (reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
EFFACE, verb. (medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.

Dictionary definition

EFFACE, verb. Remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps".
EFFACE, verb. Make inconspicuous; "efface oneself".
EFFACE, verb. Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats