0 to remove something intentionally: --
1 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 --
We shall not allow you to gain the credit of having effaced that, and having brought your estate up to a very good pitch of management.
You have no provision for a verification of the names and addresses, and no signature may be withdrawn if it his been forged, altered, effaced, or procured by misrepresentation.
Only through working together in restored confidence can the history of the past 15 years or more be effaced and solutions of the various problems found.
The legislator's work, indeed, comes only occasionally, perhaps once in a generation, and then he effaces himself.
What harm would have been effaced by doing that?
All copies were called in and as far as possible effaced.
They gave us memories which will never be effaced.
The scars that are being inflicted on our cities can be very quickly effaced.
