0 past simple and past participle of efface
1 to remove something intentionally:
2 to behave in a modest way and treat the good things that you have achieved as if they are not important, often because you do not have much confidence
It might also be said that the old centre had been segmented and expanded rather than effaced or eclipsed.
They are effaced because the fundamental theory-samaritanism-is not paternalistic and is not voluntaristic.
Characters are not integral and whole: they are partially imprinted, partially effaced, and ultimately fragmented to be remade.
Once it got overlaid on the map's magic carpet, the line on paper effaced memory of the telegraph line.
Early deficits, if they occur, are effaced by subsequent development.
Her entire memory appeared to have been effaced.
The passage from invention to medical use was now effaced, as was the history of its production and conditioning.
After 1900, then, the gender differences in social background suddenly became effaced.
