Crossword-Solution: EFFACES
We have 8 clues for the answer “EFFACES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Blots out | 4 answers |
| Expunges | 4 answers |
| Rubs out | 6 answers |
| Wears away | 8 answers |
| Obliterates | 8 answers |
| Does away with | 9 answers |
| Wipes (out) | 14 answers |
| Cancels | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EFFACES (5)
Their grief, however, like their joy, was transient; everything floated in their mind unconnected with the past or future, so that one desire easily gave way to another, as a second stone, cast into the water, effaces and confounds the circles of the first.
Democracy, which destroys or obscures almost all the old conventional rules of society, and which prevents men from readily assenting to new ones, entirely effaces most of the feelings to which these conventional rules have given rise; but it only modifies some others, and frequently imparts to them a degree of energy and sweetness unknown before.
The habit of seeing always the same face leads insensibly to our reading there the qualities of the soul, and at last effaces all its defects.
Apparently for women, as for families, the glory of the crime effaces the stain; and if such and such a noble house is proud of its tale of heads that have fallen on the scaffold, a young and pretty woman becomes more interesting for the dubious renown of a happy love or a scandalous desertion, and the more she is to be pitied, the more she excites our sympathies.
But the humanitarian democracy, which scorns all geographical lines, effaces all in individualities, and professes to plant itself on humanity alone, has acquired by the war new strength, and is not without menace to our future.
Quotes with EFFACES (3)
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but…
A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to the benumbed.
The seething rage that accompanies the truly despondent, effaces the delusional that mock from the safety of their shared illusion.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (2001–2021).