Efface

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.

II. Efface ·vt To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, ·etc.; to Erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.