Remove completely from recognition or memory:
— Efface the memory of the time in the camps.

synonym: obliterate.

Roget 506: forget; be forgetful etc. adj.; fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion; have a short memory etc. n., have no head.    forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the other.    slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the memory; lose, lose sight of.    fail to recall, not be able to recall.    [cause oneself to forget] unlearn; efface etc. 552, discharge from the memory; consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of etc. (turn the attention from) 458; cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones etc. (forgive) 918.    ... show more

Roget 449: disappear, vanish, dissolve, fade, melt away, pass, go, avaunt^†, evaporate, vaporize; be gone etc. adj.; leave no trace, leave 'not a rack behind'" [Tempest]; go off the stage etc. (depart) 293; suffer an eclipse, undergo an eclipse; retire from sight; be lost to view, pass out of sight.    lose sight of.    efface etc. 552.    ... show more

Make inconspicuous.

Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing.

synonyms: erase, rub out, score out, wipe off.

Roget 552: efface, obliterate, erase, raze^†, rase^†, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge.    be effaced &c.; leave no trace etc. 550; leave not a rack behind" ... show more

Dutch: uitvagen, wegvegen, wegvagen, gommen, gummen, stuffen, uitvlakken