Efface vs Annihilate - What's the difference?
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To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
* 1825 , , The Talisman , A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15:
To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out]] or [[strike out, striking out.
(reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
(medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(label) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
(archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
*, II.17:
As verbs the difference between efface and annihilate
is that efface is to erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible while annihilate is to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.efface
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Verb
(effac)- Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.
- An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
- Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.
- Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.
- Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.
Derived terms
* effaceable * effacement * effacer * self-effacingSee also
* deface ----annihilate
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Verb
(annihilat)- An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
- of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.