Usually means: Removes or conceals marks, features.
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  1. effaces: Merriam-Webster
  2. effaces: Collins English Dictionary
  3. effaces: Vocabulary.com
  4. effaces: Wordnik
  5. effaces: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. effaces: Wiktionary
  7. effaces: Dictionary.com
  8. effaces: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effaces: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effaces: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (efface)

verb:  (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
verb:  (intransitive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
verb:  (medicine, intransitive) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
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