It taxed the resources of the municipality to the utmost and left scars on the city that took years to efface. |
The decorators strive to efface themselves, just as persons of the highest breeding possess the simplest manners. |
He should heartily submit to the Lord's will, worship the Creator and efface his self-conceit. |
Globalisation, America and the European Union are all said to have had a hand in the plot to efface secularism. |
This view is so fundamentally flawed yet so implicit in the Australian mentality that it seems almost impossible to efface or even moderate. |
Davis, however, looks for an English equivalent that might work in both contexts, so as not to efface their suggestive interconnection. |