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efface 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/iˈfās/,
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effaced, past participle; effaces, 3rd person singular present; effacing, present participle; effaced, past tense;
  1. Erase (a mark) from a surface
    • - with time, the words are effaced by the frost and the rain
    • - his anger was effaced when he stepped into the open air
  2. Make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous

  1. obliterate: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
  2. make inconspicuous; "efface oneself"
  3. erase: remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
  4. Effacement is the shortening, or thinning, of a tissue.
  5. To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible; To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out; To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence; Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation ...
  6. (Effaced) In extispicy TT , an ominous TT  description of parts of the exta TT , for instance the Station TT  or the Path TT  of the liver TT .
  7. (i-fayss) — Thin out. Your cervix effaces (thins out) to let the baby out.
  8. A position of the body at an oblique angle and partly hidden.
  9. ["effaced"]. A position on stage in which the dancer faces one of the downstage corners with the legs crossed, upstage leg forward. The downstage arm is usually raised in this position, so that the face is shaded, or effaced; hence the name.
  10. (ay-fah-say') A position with one leg either behind or in front.
  11. ( -f s ) tr.v. ef·faced, ef·fac·ing, ef·fac·es 1. To rub or wipe out; erase. 2. To make indistinct as if by rubbing: "Five years' absence had done nothing to efface the people's memory of his firmness" Alan Moorehead. 3. To conduct (oneself) inconspicuously.
  12. to erase, to wear away
  13. Body position; shaded