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What does efface mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word efface? Here's what it means.

Verb
  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. (reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
  4. (medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
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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.

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