Difference between Erase and Efface

ERASE vs EFFACE: VERB

Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
Wipe out magnetically recorded information
To remove markings or information
To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
Remove from memory or existence

Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
To remove (recorded material) from a magnetic tape or other storage medium.
To remove all traces of; eliminate or obliterate.
To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping.

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible.
To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.

Synonyms Cancel, Obliterate, etc. (see efface); wipe out, rub off, remove.
To destroy to the foundation; raze.
Hence To remove or destroy, as if by rubbing or blotting out.
To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; efface; blot or strike out; obliterate; expunge: as, to erase a word or a name.
In entomology, sinuate, with the sinuses cut into smaller irregular notches: applied especially to the wings of certain Lepidoptera.

Synonyms Deface, Erase, Cancel, Expunge, Efface, Obliterate. To deface is to injure, impair, or mar to the eye, and so generally upon the surface: as, to deface a building. The other words agree in representing a blotting out or removal. To erase is to rub out or scratch out, so that the thing is destroyed, although the signs of it may remain: as, to erase a word in a letter. To cancel is to cross out, to deprive of force or validity. To expunge is to strike out; the word is now rarely used, except of the striking out of some record: as, to expunge from the journal a resolution of censure. To efface is to make a complete removal: as, his kindness effaced all memory of past neglect. Obliterate is more emphatic than efface, meaning to remove all sign or trace of.
To keep out of view or unobserved; make inconspicuous; cause to be unnoticed or not noticeable: used reflexively: as, to efface one's self in the midst of gaiety.
To erase or obliterate, as something inscribed or cut on a surface; destroy or render illegible; hence, to remove or destroy as if by erasing: as, to efface the letters on a monument; to efface a writing; to efface a false impression from a person's mind.

Vanish, Remove, Overcome, Dispel, Undo, Expunge, Eliminate, Wipe, Obliterate, Wipe off, Score out, Rub out, Wipe out, Delete, Efface

Extirpate, Expunge, Drop, Shutdown, Cancel, Clear, Delete, Eradicate, Annihilate, Score out, Rub out, Wipe off, Wipe, Erase, Obliterate

Disappear, Eradicate, Vanish, Remove, Overcome, Dispel, Undo, Expunge, Eliminate, Wipe, Obliterate, Wipe off, Wipe out, Delete, Efface

Elide, Transfigure, Ennoble, Extirpate, Expunge, Shutdown, Cancel, Clear, Delete, Eradicate, Annihilate, Wipe off, Wipe, Erase, Obliterate

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Series Digital Game Camera ERASE ALL IMAGES NO Erase Images Press the OK button.
In Sybase Central, you can erase a database using the Erase Database utility.
The dry erase pockets waste less paper since students can easily erase and start a new game.
Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease!
Also, most erase heads erase an area wider than the recorded track.
There is also an erase pen to erase dots or lines.
Erase Picturesto erase all pictures saved in yourphone.
HDD Erase or Secure Erase will do just fine.
Depending on your device, the erase feature will erase select data from your device and does not erase data stored on removable memory.

SYN: Abolish, destroy, bring_to_nought, uproot, eradicate, nullify, exterminate, end, extinguish, demolish, obliterate, efface.
To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.
To efface a careful uninjured with held, in septic and treatment management.
But the acceptance of evolution need not efface morality or purpose.
AMOXICILLIN was argumentative to efface most of the 72 PBO patients.
He is remembered and time cannot efface his name from earth.
Bad men it guards, and doth their ill efface.
These tumor cells almost completely efface the jejunal mucosa.
Long will it be ere these marks are efface.
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