Verb
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do away with completely, without leaving a trace
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remove completely from recognition or memory
"efface the memory of the time in the camps"
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make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
"a hidden message"
"a veiled threat"
- blot out -
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
"kill these lines in the President's speech"
- wipe out
Adjective
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reduced to nothingness
- blotted out