efface

Other forms of efface

past tense

effaced·

present participle

effacing·

third person

effaces·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about efface

What does efface mean?

efface means "remove completely from recognition or memory". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in efface?

efface has 2 syllables: ef-face. The stress falls on "face". In IPA it is /ɪˈfeɪs/.

What is another word for efface?

Close synonyms include obliterate, erase, rub out, score out, wipe off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is efface a common word?

efface is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with efface?

7 words rhyme with efface. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.