1. [verb] (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
2. [verb] (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
3. [verb] (reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
4. [verb] (medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
5. [verb] Remove completely from recognition or memory; 'efface the memory of the time in the camps'.
6. [verb] Make inconspicuous; 'efface oneself'.
7. [verb] Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; 'Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!'.
