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make inconspicious

v. make inconspicuous; "efface oneself"

wipe, obliterate

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

erase, wipe off, score out, rub out

v. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

efface, erase, wipe off, score out, rub out

v. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

clear, delete, erase

v. wipe out magnetically recorded information

end, terminate, bring to an end, cause to end

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off, wipe out

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

demolish, destroy

v. defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"

destroy

v. put to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"

dry, dry out, make dry

v. remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair"

cure, heal

v. provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"

cure

v. prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"

drain, empty of liquid, drain the liquid from

v. empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank"

drain, enfeeble, debilitate, make feeble

v. make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"

preserve

v. prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"

salt, preserve with salt

v. preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"

cancel, delete

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

cut, edit, edit out

v. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

exterminate, kill en masse, kill off

v. kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

waste, knock off, liquidate, do in

v. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"

smear, smudge, blur, smutch

v. make a smudge on; soil by smudging

hide, obliterate, obscure, blot out

v. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"

streak

v. move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"

wipe, obliterate, efface

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

take, remove, take away

v. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

clear, delete, erase

v. wipe out magnetically recorded information

extract, educe, draw out, elicit, evoke

v. to bring out

strip, clean

v. remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off, wipe out

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

kill, obliterate, wipe out

v. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"

mark, strike out, cross off, cross out, strike off

v. remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"

wipe, pass over

v. rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"; "He passed his hands over the soft cloth"

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