Crossword-Solution: EFFACE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Efface | v. t. | To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin. |
| Efface | v. t. | To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away. |
We have 56 clues for the answer “EFFACE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wipe off completely | 1 answer |
| Wear away, as a coin surface | 1 answer |
| Rub off a mark from a surface | 1 answer |
| Obligerate | 1 answer |
| Make inconspicuous | 1 answer |
| Erase a mark from a surface | 1 answer |
| Apt rhyme for "erase" | 1 answer |
| Wipe out entirely | 2 answers |
| remove by rubbing | 2 answers |
| Wipe out completely | 3 answers |
| Wipe away | 5 answers |
| Rub away | 5 answers |
| Wipe off | 5 answers |
| Scratch out? | 7 answers |
| Wear away | 10 answers |
| A BLOT MADE WITH INK | 10 answers |
| COMPLETELY OR ENTIRELY | 10 answers |
| CAUSE TO VANISH | 12 answers |
| Raze | 15 answers |
| Dele | 16 answers |
| Wear out? | 20 answers |
| Expunge | 20 answers |
| Rub out | 21 answers |
| Extirpate | 22 answers |
| Do away with | 23 answers |
| Decimate | 25 answers |
| blot out | 25 answers |
| Deface | 25 answers |
| Erase | 31 answers |
| Daub | 33 answers |
| Wipe out | 34 answers |
| smutch | 35 answers |
| Delete | 36 answers |
| Contaminate | 37 answers |
| Smooch | 37 answers |
| Smudge | 38 answers |
| smirch | 39 answers |
| Omit | 41 answers |
| Becloud | 42 answers |
| MAKE unshapely | 42 answers |
| Sponge | 42 answers |
| Eclipse | 44 answers |
| rule out | 47 answers |
| Dab | 48 answers |
| BLACK out | 48 answers |
| count out | 50 answers |
| Nullify | 53 answers |
| Mar | 57 answers |
| Wearing | 63 answers |
| Malign | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EFFACE (5)
Child as she was, she felt the poignancy of her friend’s grief, and with the infinite tact of her girlish tenderness, she did not try to pry into it, but was ready to efface herself.
Why had the sight of that evil countenance not warned me to greater caution? Why had I permitted the rapid development of new situations to efface the recollection of that menacing danger? But, alas, vain regret would not erase the calamity that had befallen.
And when Tarzan of the Apes elected to adopt stealth, no creature in all the jungle could move so silently or so completely efface himself from the sight of an enemy.
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.
The sombre housekeeper was a mere shadow in comparison; indeed, she seemed to efface herself and wait only on the butler, and Brown heard no more of those volcanic whispers which had half told him of the younger brother who blackmailed the elder.
Quotes with EFFACE (3)
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important?
All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unle…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 57 times in crossword archives (1970–2024).