efface
See also: effacé
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French effacer (“erase”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French esfacier (“remove the face”).
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
- Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.
- 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15:
- An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
- (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
- Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.
- (reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
- Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.
- (medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
- Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.
Derived terms
Translations
to erase
cause to disappear as if by rubbing out
make oneself inobtrusive
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
efface f (plural effaces)
Verb
efface
- first-person singular present indicative of effacer
- third-person singular present indicative of effacer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of effacer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of effacer
- second-person singular imperative of effacer
Further reading
- “efface”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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