efface

efface is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.
2. transitive verb. To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.
3. verb. remove completely from recognition or memory

   "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

   Synonyms: obliterate

4. verb. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

   "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

   Synonyms: erase

5. verb. make inconspicuous

   "efface oneself"

Synonyms

obliterate, erase

Common word forms

effaced, effacer, effaces, effacing, effaceable, effacement

Words from these letters

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