Difference between Erases and Efface

ERASES vs EFFACE: NOUN

A major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.
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.

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.

Drops, Trumps, Wipes, Expunges, Clears, Deletes, Obliterates, Eliminates, Removes, Rub out, Wipe off, Score out, Wipe out, Delete, Efface

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

Dissolves, Supersedes, Extends, Ignores, Overwhelms, Quells, Lingers, Nullifies, Fades, Expunges, Deletes, Wipe off, Wipe out, Delete, Efface

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

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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