Efface: alternatives and connections

To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

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To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

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To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

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To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

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Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.

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Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.

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Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar…

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Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar…

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To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…

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To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

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To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

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Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.

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Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

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The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

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The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

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The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.

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The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

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To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

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