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Definition

remove completely from recognition or memory — sometimes by erasing

or:

to make oneself inconspicuous or unimportant

effaces = make herself inconspicuous or unimportant

Glancing at her-myopic, spinsterish, effaced-I wondered how she knew she had graduated at all, and, unlike her clients, was whole and well.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

effaced = inconspicuous or unimportant

Your dear thoughts have now effaced That beauty that so won me at the outset.
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac

effaced = remove completely from recognition or memory — sometimes by erasing

or:

to make oneself inconspicuous or unimportant

Footsteps were easily printed on the snow! But soon, under a new sheet, every imprint would be effaced.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days

effaced = erased (hidden from view)

The tone of her prose, tender and effacing, is colored by the devotion of one who has dedicated her life to another's art.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

effacing = inconspicuous

Nor could they efface the images that lingered in Pedro and Tita's minds, marking them forever.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

efface = remove completely from memory

Then I saw a shadow flit across her face, and she drew back against the wall, effacing herself, as a step sounded outside and Maxim came into the room.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

effacing = removing from sight

...and efface his name and lineage from the earth.
William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!

efface = remove completely from recognition or memory

...and after a little meditation during which his wrinkles were pursed as into a point, quite effacing for the time that quizzing expression his face sometimes wore,
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd

effacing = removing completely from recognition

What was any tyranny of prison compared with the tyranny of the past, of the thing that had happened and could not be recalled, of the memory that could never be effaced!
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

effaced = erased

They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening

efface = remove completely

The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and gray impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles

efface = remove (or erase)

Without any resort to tricks or to false emphasis, she set herself to efface the newcomer. ... Her personality became so electric that if she so much as laid her hand upon that of a fellow actor a sympathetic shudder ran through the audience.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey

efface = erase from recognition or memory

The little woman hoped they would have a good house. She looked out at the rain until the melancholy of the wet street effaced all the trustfulness and enthusiasm from her twisted features. Then she gave a little sigh and said:
"Ah, well! We did our best, the dear knows."
James Joyce -- Dubliners

effaced = remove completely

I will efface that blot on my father's character.
Alexander Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
No new impressions could efface those which are so deeply cut.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Lost World
"I did not mean anything, I was only joking," he said, smiling shyly and trying to efface his offense.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
She effaced the memory of the time in the camps.
But no brush was able to efface completely the expression of happiness
Woolf, Virginia -- The Voyage Out
You may think what you like, but I desire now to do all I can to efface that impression and to show that I am a man of heart and conscience.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Crime And Punishment

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