transitive. To destroy, blot out, erase; also figurative.

spec. To erase (writing, etc.) with a knife. Chiefly with adverbs out, away, off, and const. out of.

transferred and figurative. To blot out, obliterate, cancel.

To grow small or weak; to decline, decay, fail, or faint; to shrink. literal and figurative. Obsolete.

With away, off, out, or prepositional phrase. transitive. figurative. Now rare.

transitive. To obliterate, destroy; to erase, efface, rub out.

To scrape out, erase (a word, etc.); to remove by scraping. transitive. figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To erase, obliterate.

transitive. To tread upon; to trample down. literal and figurative. †to stramp away, forth: to stamp out.

(with away, out) To obliterate, efface, erase. Obsolete as a specific sense.

transitive. To deface, disfigure, spoil in appearance; perhaps short for deface, n. Obsolete. rare.

gen. To obliterate, blot out, delete from sight or memory.

transitive. To blot out.

to wash out (transitive). to obliterate, cancel, remove.

to blur out: to efface (writing, etc.) by blurring it. to blur over: to put out of sight, or obscure by a blur. Mostly figurative.

transitive. To cause to disappear; to efface (something visible or perceived by the senses).

To rub out, obliterate (writing, painted or sculptured figures, a mark or stain) from the surface of anything, so as to leave no distinct traces.

transitive. To obliterate the outlines of (anything limned); to efface, blot out.

transitive. To clear out from the brain or mind.

transitive. To remove the marks of, obliterate, efface.

transitive. To blot out by ruffling. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. To efface, obliterate from the mind or memory.

transitive. To cancel, scrap, call off; to eliminate, erase; to reject, dismiss. Also with out. colloquial.

transitive. To draw a line through or over; spec. to obliterate by scoring across, to cross out. Also: to cover with scores or cuts. Also figurative.

transitive. To pass over in silence; to suppress, strike out, or omit from an account (in recent use, sometimes with the implication of conflating or…

To efface, obliterate. Western U.S.

figurative. A record of any kind concerning or against a person; esp. in a clean slate. Also in phrases to wipe (off) the slate, to wipe the slate…