The word "effaced" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe an obliteration or erasing of something. For example, "The evidence was quickly effaced, leaving no trace of the incident."
IS declared that it had effaced the colonial-era Sykes-Picot border between Iraq and Syria to create a new caliphate.
Her women vent their fury at being effaced by men.
But almost a third of a century after his death, the memory of the old dictator is being effaced, with the removal of the generalissimo's statues and the renaming of many streets and even Taipei's international airport.This has provoked a political row, which this week engulfed Taiwan's defence minister, Lee Jye.
Yet IS does not consider the two countries to be separate battlefields; it claims its "caliphate" has effaced the post-colonial borders.
The war criminals could then be effaced.
By 100 ce at the latest, Latin had effaced all the other dialects between Sicily and the Alps, with the exception of Greek in the colonies of Magna Graecia.
In that era, as Brazil expanded its world export trade in such products as coffee, cotton, sugar, and rubber, the city changed its appearance, and the traces of its colonial past were effaced.
Although modern transportation and industry have partly effaced regional differences, the organization of life in both city and country still follows patterns that were set in early colonial times.
Some mystics taught that behind this negative unity where the self is completely effaced, the baqāʾ, ("duration, life in God") is found: the ecstatic experience, called intoxication, is followed by the "second sobriety"—i.e., the return of the completely transformed mystic into this world where he acts as a living witness of God or continues the "journey in God".
Although the only historical Buddha was Siddhārtha Gautama (6th 5th century bc), in the mythology of the northern school of Buddhism (the Mahāyāna), the identity of the historical Buddha has been almost effaced by a long vista of putative buddhas extending through previous and future times.
In his will, drawn up in 1806, he asked that "the traces of my grave disappear from the face of the earth, as I flatter myself that my memory will be effaced from the mind of men".
