1. Gommer.
2. Rayer. Effacer un mot.
3. Faire disparaître. Un souvenir qui s'efface.
4. (Pron.) Se retirer. S'effacer devant un rival.
1. To make obscure, insignificant, or inconsequential
2. To wipe out, destroy
3. To erase.
To remove or make invisible; SYN. cancel.
Remove or erase. In computing, the deletion of a character removes it from the file; the deletion of a file normally means removing its directory entry, rather than actually deleting it from the disc. Many systems now have an undelete facility that allows the restoration of the directory entry. While deleted files may not have been removed from the disc, they can be overwritten.
1. To kill in large numbers; SYN. annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off.
2. To terminate or take out; SYN. get rid of, do away with.
1. To remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; SYN. rub out, score out, efface, wipe off.
2. To remove from memory or existence; SYN. wipe out.
3. To wipe out magnetically recorded information; SYN. delete.