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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King