| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To erase, expunge, delete, obliterate or extinguish.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To remove, vacate, eliminate, kill or obviate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To wipe, rub or scrub. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To crush, squash, squelch or pestle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To annihilate or destroy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To outstrip, leapfrog, outpace, outrank or outrun.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Present participle conjugation of the verb efface.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (efface) | 1. Remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps".[Wordnet]. 2. Make inconspicuous; "efface oneself".[Wordnet]. 3. Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing.[Wordnet]. 4. 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.[Websters]. 5. To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: effacing, effaced, effaces, effacer, effacers, effacingly and effacedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "EFFACING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EFFACING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Destroying a figure, character or impression on any thing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of efface. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
