efface

Meaning

1. (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
2. (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
3. (intransitive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
4. (intransitive) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
5. (intransitive) Of a woman: to have the cervix thin and stretch in this manner.

Synonyms

erase

obliterate

expunge

delete

wipe out

blot out

rub out

wipe off

destroy

eliminate

score out

devastate

undo

kill

🔪🩸👤

extinguish

remove

clear

eradicate

strike out

cancel

excise

blot

lay waste

live down

mar

mishandle

murder

pulverize

quench

rake

ravage

rub off

ruin

scratch

smash

sponge

🧽

strike

strike off

sweep

sweep away

tuck away

towel

turn out

unlive

unmake

whisk

wipe

wipe up

wreck

sweep off

Translations

effacer

borrar

cancellare

löschen

auslöschen

eliminare

silmek

yok etmek

tilgen

bozmak

esborrar

εξαλείφω

supprimer

öldürmek

🔪🩸👤

zerstören

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈfeɪs/

Etymology

From Middle French effacer (“erase”), from Old French esfacier (“remove the face”).