efface

Example Sentences

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Frankly, to efface all cartographic memorials to racism in Alexandria would require changing the name of the city itself.

From Washington Post

While the channel has protected the city from major flooding, it has also worsened the effects of segregation, and so effaced the river that many Angelenos might no longer know it was ever there.

From New York Times

But some may feel that the warm welcome Omar receives from the enslaved workers at Owen’s plantation effaces the harsher reality of the character’s circumstance.

From Los Angeles Times

If Moscow “wants to erase the name Ukraine,” he believes, Odesa needs to efface most traces of Russia.

From New York Times

Ukraine was now home to “radicals and neo-Nazis” intent on effacing any trace of Russia.

From Seattle Times