All 4 Uses of
efface
in
Moby Dick
- Nor even down to so late a time as Cuvier's, were these or almost similar impressions effaced.†
Chpt 40-42
- Almost every night they were brought out; almost every night some pencil marks were effaced, and others were substituted.†
Chpt 43-45
- Besides all the other phenomena which the exterior of the Sperm Whale presents, he not seldom displays the back, and more especially his flanks, effaced in great part of the regular linear appearance, by reason of numerous rude scratches, altogether of an irregular, random aspect.†
Chpt 67-69
- The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.†
Chpt 106-108 *
Definition:
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(efface as in: efface the memory) remove completely from recognition or memory -- sometimes by erasing