Dictionary
to efface
verb
To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
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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.
Since assuming power, Mugabe's avowed mission has been to efface Rhodes's legacy.
"Time has not yet served to efface your blonde handsomeness from my retentive memory, old keed".
Trying to efface the reality of a sad and violent death with protestations of romance is less so.
Globalisation, America and the European Union are all said to have had a hand in the plot to efface secularism.
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