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To efface
verb
To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
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To efface your characters' individuality, to render them literally nameless, in a novel chronicling the systematic violation of identity: is this a shrewd act of mimesis or perhaps the cruelest irony of all?
Rather than delineate, I was trying to efface them.
"They wanted to efface evidence of their crime".
It also allows TIB arbitrarily to efface "offensive" content without users being any the wiser.
This is very similar to authorial power, which usually tries to efface itself.
Parker claims that non-standard maps tend to efface the traditional borders between countries and regions.
Maybe any minute there will be a real arrest, to efface the phantom one.
It offers to efface, at a stroke, the occasionally shoddy pragmatism we've grown accustomed to.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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