All 7 Uses of

efface
in
Jane Eyre

Miss Gryce snored at last; she was a heavy Welshwoman, and till now her habitual nasal strains had never been regarded by me in any other light than as a nuisance; to-night I hailed the first deep notes with satisfaction; I was debarrassed of interruption; my half-effaced thought instantly revived.
p. 102.5

effaced = forgotten

When Mrs. Fairfax had bidden me a kind good-night, and I had fastened my door, gazed leisurely round, and in some measure effaced the eerie impression made by that wide hall, that dark and spacious staircase, and that long, cold gallery, by the livelier aspect of my little room, I remembered that, after a day of bodily fatigue and mental anxiety, I was now at last in safe haven.
p. 116.5

effaced = removed

...stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.
p. 125.2

effaced = worn away

A rude noise broke on these fine ripplings and whisperings, at once so far away and so clear: a positive tramp, tramp, a metallic clatter, which effaced the soft wave-wanderings; as, in a picture, the solid mass of a crag, or the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark and strong on the foreground, efface the aerial distance of azure hill, sunny horizon, and blended clouds where tint melts into tint.
p. 132.3

effaced = removed completely from recognition

A rude noise broke on these fine ripplings and whisperings, at once so far away and so clear: a positive tramp, tramp, a metallic clatter, which effaced the soft wave-wanderings; as, in a picture, the solid mass of a crag, or the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark and strong on the foreground, efface the aerial distance of azure hill, sunny horizon, and blended clouds where tint melts into tint.
p. 132.4

efface = remove completely from notice

But joy soon effaced every other feeling;
p. 296.7 *

effaced = erased (removed from notice)

Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and flatterers: in less than a month, my image will be effaced from her heart.
p. 431.8

effaced = removed completely

Definitions:

(1) (efface as in: efface the memory)
remove completely from recognition or memory -- sometimes by erasing
(2) (efface as in: efface herself)
to make oneself inconspicuous or unimportant
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More rare, specialized senses include:
- ballet -- a way of standing at an angle that hides part of the body from view
- medicine -- describing the cervix as getting shorter, softer, and thinner during labor