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y 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.

Capable of being effaced.

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.

So as not to be effaceable.

To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.

To efface, as a picture. [Obs.] Shak.

To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

Burnt in; ineffaceable. Her inburnt, shamefaced thoughts. P. Fletcher.

That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.

iting, and size. When written upon with a pewter or brass pencil, the lines can hardly be effaced. -- Metallic tinking (Med.), a sound heard in the chest, when a cavity communicating with the air passages contains both air and liquid.

To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

To efface or remove. He planed away the names . . . written on his tables. Chaucer.

A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure. Ayliffe.

To erase; to efface; to obliterate. Razing the characters of your renown. Shak.

The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.

as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit their aversion can remove, Nor ill requital can efface their love. Waller.