efface.html - v.
1 tr. rub or wipe out (a mark etc.).
2 tr. (in abstract senses) obliterate; wipe out (effaced it from his memory).
3 tr. utterly surpass; eclipse (success has effaced all previous attempts).
4 refl. treat or regard oneself as unimportant (self-effacing).

effacement n. [F effacer (as EX-(1), FACE)]

efface.html - v.
1 tr. rub or wipe out (a mark etc.).
2 tr. (in abstract senses) obliterate; wipe out (effaced it from his memory).
3 tr. utterly surpass; eclipse (success has effaced all previous attempts).
4 refl. treat or regard oneself as unimportant (self-effacing).

effacement n. [F effacer (as EX-(1), FACE)]

efface.html - v.
1 tr. rub or wipe out (a mark etc.).
2 tr. (in abstract senses) obliterate; wipe out (effaced it from his memory).
3 tr. utterly surpass; eclipse (success has effaced all previous attempts).
4 refl. treat or regard oneself as unimportant (self-effacing).

effacement n. [F effacer (as EX-(1), FACE)]

efface.html - See: IN EFFECT, INTO EFFECT, SOUND EFFECTS, TAKE EFFECT, TO THAT EFFECT, TO THE EFFECT THAT,

efface.html - See: HANG IN EFFIGY or BURN IN EFFIGY.

efface.html - v.
sl. euphem.
1 tr. & intr. (often foll. by off) = FUCK (in expletive use).
2 intr. say fuck or similar coarse slang words.

effing and blinding using coarse slang. [name of the letter F, as a euphemistic abbr.]