effacement

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ef=face=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

effacement, n. [Cf. F. effacement.].

 The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

effacement

Obliteration

N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.