ef·face 
(ĭ-fās)
(ĭ-fās)v. ef·faced, ef·fac·ing, ef·fac·es
v.tr.
1. To rub or wipe out; erase: The serial number had been effaced from the stolen product.
2. To remove or make indistinct: "Five years' absence had done nothing to efface the people's memory of his firmness" (Alan Moorehead).
3. To conduct (oneself) inconspicuously: "When the two women went out together, Anna deliberately effaced herself and played to the dramatic Molly" (Doris Lessing).
4. Medicine To cause to become shorter, softer, and thinner during labor: The cervix was effaced as the contractions continued.
v.intr.
Medicine To become shorter, softer, and thinner during labor. Used of the cervix.
[Middle English effacen, from French effacer, from Old French esfacier : es-, out (from Latin ex-, ex-) + face, face; see FACE.]
ef·facea·ble adj.
ef·facement n.
ef·facer n.
- income
- income bond
- income fund
- income property
- income tax
- income tax return
- incoming
- incommensurability
- incommensurable
- incommensurably
- incommensurate
- incommensurately
- incommensurateness
- in commission
- incommode
- incommodious
- incommodiously
- incommodiousness
- incommodity
- in common
- incommunicability
- incommunicable
- incommunicably
- incommunicado
- incommunicative