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efface verb abolish, annihilate, black out, blot out, cancel, decimate, delete, demolish, destroy, destruct, discontinue, disintegrate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, end, eradicate, erase, expel, expunge, extinguish, liquidate, obliterate, quell, ravage, raze, remove, root out, ruin, scratch out, stop, terminate See also: annul, deface, delete, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, expurgate, extinguish, extirpate, obliterate, terminate How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Tir inside the intestinal cell initiates a cascade of events that effaces the nutrient-absorbing projections from the intestinal cell's outer surface and forces the cell to rearrange itself into a bacterium-embracing pedestal. That's not to say that Tapley completely effaces any trace of her hand, however; the individual brushstroke can sometimes be quite evident, though minute. In the search for textual and sexual certainty, Scudamour effaces the emotional complexity allowed for in Book III (and the 1590 ending) by inscribing it within his own limited and limiting narrative desire. |
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