I tried to efface the memory of her tears.
Source: tatoeba (261080)
Efface
//əˈfeɪs//
Synonyms for "efface" (34 found)
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Related words (17)
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44 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- دَسَمَ verb (to erase)
- طَلَسَ verb (to erase)
Bulgarian
4 entries- заличавам verb (to erase)
- зачерквам verb (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out)
- изтривам verb (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out)
- премахвам verb (to erase)
Chinese
1 entries- 拍擦銷 /拍擦销 verb (to erase)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 磨 verb (to erase)
Czech
4 entries- smazat verb (to erase)
- vymazat verb (to erase)
- vymazat verb (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out)
- zahladit verb (to erase)
Dutch
1 entries- zich wegcijferen verb (make oneself inobtrusive)
French
3 entries- effacer verb (to erase)
- effacer verb (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out)
- s'effacer verb (make oneself inobtrusive)
Georgian
1 entries- წაშლა verb (to erase)
German
4 entries- auslöschen verb (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out)
- ausradieren verb (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out)
- unkenntlich machen verb (to erase)
- unlesbar machen verb (to erase)
Greek
1 entries- αποσβήνω verb (to erase)
Ido
1 entries- efacar verb (to erase)
Japanese
3 entries- 抹殺する verb (to erase)
- 拭い去る verb (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out)
- 消去する verb (to erase)
Latin
2 entries- dēlinō verb (to erase)
- oblitterō verb (to erase)
Marathi
1 entries- पुसणे verb (to erase)
Romanian
1 entries- șterge verb (to erase)
Russian
4 entries- вычёркивать verb (make oneself inobtrusive)
- замазывать verb (to erase)
- стирать verb (to erase)
- стирать verb (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zbrȉsati verb (to erase)
- збри̏сати verb (to erase)
Spanish
2 entries- borrar verb (to erase)
- borrar verb (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out)
Swahili
1 entries- futa verb (to erase)
Tagalog
1 entries- bura verb (to erase)
Tamil
1 entries- அழி verb (to erase)
Thai
1 entries- ล้าง verb (to erase)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall.
Source: tatoeba (6606826)
True to his Paphian mother, trace by trace, / slowly the Love-god with prevenient art, / begins the lost Sychaeus to efface, / and living passion to a breast impart / long dead to feeling, and a vacant heart.
Source: tatoeba (6800224)
Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.
Source: wiktionary
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