EFFACEMENT Synonyms

• any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

• (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome

• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

• the act of deleting something written or printed

• the act of removing or getting rid of something

• the bodily process of discharging waste matter

• analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

• the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

• the murder of a competitor

• the complete destruction of every trace of something

• a correction made by erasing

• a surface area where something has been erased

• deletion by an act of expunging or erasing

• deletion by an act of expunging or erasing

• no longer active; extinguished

• no longer in existence

• the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation

• complete annihilation

• a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus

• the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

• surgical removal of a body part or tissue

• the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence

• destruction by annihilating something

• the complete destruction of every trace of something

• withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous