Construct and Efface

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Construct verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.

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Efface is an antonym for construct.

Efface verb - To destroy all traces of.

Usage example: when the supply ship finally arrived, it discovered that virtually all evidence of the colony at Roanoke had been effaced

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Construct is an antonym for efface in erase topic.

Nearby Word: effacing

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Efface and Construct. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/construct/efface

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