verb
- Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase.
- usage: "kill these lines in the President's speech"
- Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing.
- usage: "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
- Remove completely from recognition or memory.
- usage: "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
- synonyms: efface
- Do away with completely, without leaving a trace.
adjective
- Reduced to nothingness.
- synonyms: blotted out, obliterated
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