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What does efface mean?

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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.
This view is so fundamentally flawed yet so implicit in the Australian mentality that it seems almost impossible to efface or even moderate.
Globalisation, America and the European Union are all said to have had a hand in the plot to efface secularism.
By volunteering to go, prisoners would win a remission of sentence and efface the stigma of jail.
Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film.
The better to efface the impress of their tyrannical past, I had to dip them into water.

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