effacer
erase
Faire disparaître quelque chose, comme un mot ou un dessin, pour qu’on ne le voie plus.
Effacer is a French verb meaning "to erase" or "to wipe off."
Meaning
- Primary meaning: To remove marks, writing, or traces from a surface. For example, erasing pencil marks from paper.
- Figurative meaning: To eliminate or suppress something memory or an event, to make something disappear.
Parts
- The verb effacer is a regular -er verb.
- Conjugated in the present tense (example):
- Je efface
- Tu effaces
- Il/Elle efface
- Nous effaçons
- Vous effacez
- Ils/Elles effacent
Synonyms
- Effacer (to erase):
- Supprimer (to remove or delete)
- Enlever (to remove)
- Exterminer (in the sense of wiping out completely)
- Eliminer (to eliminate)
Antonyms
- Écrire (to write)
- Tracer (to draw, to mark)
- Dessiner (to draw)
Example sentences
- J'ai effacé le tableau. (I erased the blackboard.)
- Ils veulent effacer ce souvenir terrible de leur mémoire. (They want to erase this terrible memory from their minds.)
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Examples
Peux-tu effacer le tableau, s'il te plaît ?verb
Could you erase the board, please?
Tu veux effacer cette erreur ?verb
Do you want to erase this mistake?
J’ai effacé le vieux message sur mon téléphone.verb
I erased the old message on my phone.
Nous allons effacer les traces sur l’ordinateur.verb
We are going to erase the traces on the computer.
Ils effaçaient lentement les dessins du mur.verb
They were slowly erasing the drawings from the wall.
Elle effacera tout avant de partir.verb
She will erase everything before leaving.
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