efface

Verbs

  • (v) remove completely from recognition or memory
    • efface the memory of the time in the camps
    obliterate,
  • (v) make inconspicuous
    • efface oneself
  • (v) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
    • Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
    rub out, score out, erase, wipe off,

Synonyms

obliterate rub out score out erase wipe off

Words of close approximity

effaceable effacement