All 3 Uses of
efface
in
War and Peace
- * I did not mean anything, I was only joking," he said, smiling shyly and trying to efface his offense.†
Chpt 5 *
- Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced?†
Chpt 7
- He now felt ashamed of his speech with its constitutional tendency and sought an opportunity of effacing it.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(efface as in: efface the memory) remove completely from recognition or memory -- sometimes by erasing