efface

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And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's personality.
除非一个人能承受抹去自己个性的长期斗争，否则，他根本写不出一些具可读性的东西。
There's one valedictory wink from the great magician, a final card containing a list of synonyms for "efface" – expunge, erase, delete, rub out, wipe out and...
这是最后一次来自这个伟大的魔法师的眨眼告别，一张列着“消除”的近义词的最后底牌——擦除、清除、删除、磨灭、消灭，还有……
Also this week he told French ambassadors to go out and tell the world that he is determined to modernise France and efface its image as rigid and protectionist.
也是在这周，他告诉法国的大使们到世界各国向全世界宣讲他推进法国现代化的决心，并淡化法国顽固不化和贸易保护主义的固有形象。

Neither political correctness nor willful blindness can efface that record.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 2012 Freedom Flame Award: Michael Mukasey
Along with the hypocrisy of power, Lou dramatizes a society of surveillance and internal espionage, in which deceit and pretense serve the spirit of freedom, fear and despair efface identity and warp morality, and the last refuge of conscience, in the face of oppressive order, is the commemoration of the victims.
NEWYORKER: Spring Fever

(REMOVE) to remove something intentionally
(BE MODEST) to behave in a modest way and treat the good things that you have achieved as if they are not important, often because you do not have much confidence

To efface something means to destroy or remove it so that it cannot be seen anymore. &rarrsee also self-effacing