meaning of 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.
3.
remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the ">camps"


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