Difference between Rub Out and Efface

RUB OUT vs EFFACE: VERB

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.

Drown out, Wipe, Polish off, Clear away, Rub in, Scratch out, Razure, Wipe up, Blot out, Fling off, Extersion, Score out, Wipe off, Efface, Erase

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

Brush down, Drown out, Wipe, Polish off, Clear away, Rub in, Scratch out, Razure, Wipe up, Blot out, Fling off, Extersion, Wipe off, Efface, Erase

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

God never meant for America to be a melting pot to rub out the line between the nations.
Additional back up from both the 20-day and 50-day SMA at 0.7390 will help to rub out dollar strength.
With a solid coat of primer complete and dry, use steel wool to lightly rub out any imperfections and bumps.
City officials are expressing hope that new massage establishment regulations could rub out impostor setups that engage in prostitution.
Add a generous amount of the mayonnaise to your cloth and then rub out the water marks.
She began to rub out line endings so the lyrics ran on until they resembled prose or modern blank verse.
Its similar to the residue you get when you rub out pencil with an eraser.
Start on one side, then rub out the finish with a dry cloth.
Please stop asking people to rub out their face as tribute.
Why does Mr Martin finally decide to rub out Mrs Barrows?

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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