efface

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1)  To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
 * 2) * 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15:
 * An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
 * 1)  To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
 * 2)  To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
 * 3)  Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
 * 1)  To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
 * 2)  Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
 * 1)  Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
 * 1)  Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.

Translations

 * Arabic: دَسَمَ, خَمَلَ, طَلَسَ, طَمَسَ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 拍擦銷
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, vymazat, zahladit
 * French:
 * Georgian: წაშლა
 * German: unkenntlich machen, unlesbar machen,
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: 抹殺する,
 * Latin: dēlinō, oblitterō
 * Marathi: पुसणे
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: збри̏сати
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog: bura
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: vymazat
 * French:
 * German:, , zum Verschwinden bringen
 * Japanese: 拭い去る
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: zich wegcijferen
 * French:
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1)  eraser