Efface vs Set_aside - What's the difference?

Efface is a related term of set_aside.

is that efface is while set_aside is (idiomatic) to separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.

(effac)

To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.

Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.

* 1825 , , The Talisman , A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15:

An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.

To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out]] or [[strike out, striking out.

Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.

(reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.

Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.

(medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.

Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.

* effaceable * effacement * effacer * self-effacing

(idiomatic) To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.

Plan to set aside three or four hours to see the museum.

(idiomatic) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.

* Tillotson

Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that.

(idiomatic) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.

(idiomatic) To declare something invalid or null and void.

* raise, beg (as in beg the question) (of a question)

* * * English phrasal verbs