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effacing

verb , present participle of efface

Synonyms and Antonyms of effacing

to destroy all traces of

when the supply ship finally arrived, it discovered that virtually all evidence of the colony at Roanoke had been effaced

Synonyms of effacing

abolishing, annihilating, blacking out, blotting out, canceling (or cancelling), cleaning (up), eradicating, erasing, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, rooting (out), rubbing out, snuffing (out), stamping (out), sweeping (away), wiping out

Words Related to effacing

decimating, demolishing, destroying, devastating, ravaging

dismantling, flattening, mowing (down), razing, tearing down

ruining, totaling (or totalling), wasting, wrecking

blasting, blowing up, dashing, dynamiting, smashing

atomizing, consuming, devouring, dissolving, fragmenting, powdering, pulverizing, shattering, splintering

dooming, finishing, killing, killing off, terminating, zapping

canceling (or cancelling), cutting, discarding, ditching, ejecting, excising, expelling, jettisoning, ousting, throwing out

Near Antonyms of effacing

conserving, preserving, protecting, saving

building, constructing, creating, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, shaping

fixing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renewing, renovating, repairing, restoring, revamping

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