- present participle of efface.
effacing
Example Sentences
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Effacing those words will not destroy the memory of the Gdansk martyrs, or the determination of the survivors to regain their lost dignity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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While Peace, with sunny cheeks of toil, Walks o'er the free, unlorded soil, Effacing with her splendid share The drops that war had sprinkled there.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
Fair name might he have handed down, Effacing many a stain of former crime.
From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt