efface
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"You may have the power to bring down the government. But you cannot efface reality," he said.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
He has a formal, shy, sincere manner, polite and cautious, as if to efface his size and menace.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023
Most essentially, “Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through,” not unlike Fleischmann’s first book “Syzygy, Beauty,” effaces lines of genre as a strategy to efface, or disrupt, lines of self and gender.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2019
But some feel privileging an object’s “universal” value can efface the particular history in which it is inscribed, as well as the experiences of the individuals who made it.
From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2018
She is told that she is still in early labor, three centimeters dilated, beginning to efface.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing efface
100 SAT Words Beginning with "E"
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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