Definition of efface in English:

efface

verb ɪˈfeɪsəˈfeɪs

[with object]

1Erase (a mark) from a surface.
with time, the words are effaced by the rain
Example sentencesExamples
- Davis, however, looks for an English equivalent that might work in both contexts, so as not to efface their suggestive interconnection.
- The uncertainty is effaced by the overwhelming tendency to fall towards the stable end-state.
- She speaks of feeling as if her identity was being effaced by the requirement to appear neutrally Western.
- Unlike Conceptual art, it has specific formal characteristics - geometric, monochromatic shapes - and a recurrent concern with effacing all signs of artistic personality and effort from the work itself.
- He consequently suffuses his speech with a rhetoric that effaces differences among Celts and Saxons.
- It seemed to me to symbolise how the Northern conflict had effaced so much personal history.
- Similarly, the images of discredited rulers were effaced in the monumental narrative reliefs which played so prominent a role in imperial propaganda art.
- Is the carnage associated with them a result of lurid scriptural interpretations of religion which have effaced the life of the spirit?
- Only by grossly simplifying and distorting the data, particularly in the domain of literary and textual production, can such differences be effaced or ignored between the cultures in the Republic and Northern Ireland.
- And rather than rely on imaginary resolutions that efface conflicts and contradictions, they aim to deal with the concrete particularity of the other in her unique and unrepeatable situation.
- This ending is as bleak as any in the history of tragic drama - death, rape, slavery, fire destroying the towers, the city's very name effaced from the record of history by the acts of rapacious and murderous Greeks.
- Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film.
- In this way, Morrison implies that the traumatic impact of slavery can never be fully effaced.
- If the leaders maintained their authority, and if every person and factor in the devastated area would proceed to their work in the best order, the traces of the catastrophe would soon be effaced.
- To subordinate the essentially cinematic as he does is itself a technique of ineffable skill; and to efface his signature as a director from the style of a film argues a modest purity of aim that is refreshing.
- Woodson is best known today as the father of African American history; many online accounts of his life misrepresent him as the youngest child of former slaves, effacing that he had any younger siblings, including Bessie Woodson Yancey.
- The concern with keeping everything ‘smooth and quiet’ in the novel, no matter what the social cost, presents white Southern life as determined to efface the rights of all African Americans.
- Some literary critics have argued that interactivity will efface literature itself.
- As many of the weather's varied meanings as both help and hindrance have been effaced, indeed, such preferences show up all the more clearly because practical considerations no longer obscure them.
- The result is an important challenge to the new historicist tendency to efface the literary dimensions of early modern poetry.
1. 1.1 Cause (a memory or emotion) to disappear completely.
  nothing could efface the bitter memory
  Example sentencesExamples
  The unification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic was driven by the impulse to efface the memory of East Germany and the political, cultural and economic experience of East Germans.
  Synonyms
  erase, eradicate, expunge, blot out, rub out, wipe out, remove, eliminate, excise
2efface oneselfMake oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous.
to efface oneself is not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake
Example sentencesExamples
- She had effaced herself when he first knew her; she had made herself small, pretending there was less of her than there really was.
- The Talmud states that people's prayers are not accepted unless they efface themselves before God.
- The decorators strive to efface themselves, just as persons of the highest breeding possess the simplest manners.
- As author, she effaces herself absolutely in order to reflect and depict the story of Narcissus.
Synonyms
make oneself inconspicuous, keep out of sight, keep oneself to oneself, keep quiet, keep out of the public eye, avoid publicity, keep out of the limelight, lie low, keep a low profile, regard/treat oneself as unimportant, be modest/diffident/retiring, withdraw

Derivatives

effacement

noun ɪˈfeɪsm(ə)nt

This ‘changing of the guard’ entails an extraordinary effacement of Virgilian text precisely when Beatrice appears.
Example sentencesExamples
- They also inadvertently revealed the scope of art history's effacement of this context of practice.
- The most radical loss of human singularity entails the effacement within the universal, or within the holocaust of spirit, of this relation between mother and daughter.
- Strikingly addressed are the hypocrisies and effacement within the tourist trade.
- It was an entirely sympathetic presentation, in which there was an effacement of the self, and a presentation of a fascinating body of work, where you're supposed to go with the writer into the houses of flagellation or the houses of prayer.

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense 'pardon or be absolved from (an offence)'): from French effacer, from e- (from Latin ex- 'away from') + face 'face'.

Rhymes

abase, ace, apace, backspace, base, bass, brace, case, chase, dace, embrace, encase, enchase, enlace, face, grace, interlace, interspace, in-your-face, lace, mace, misplace, outface, outpace, pace, place, plaice, race, space, Thrace, trace, upper case

Definition of efface in US English:

efface

verbəˈfeɪsəˈfās

[with object]

1Erase (a mark) from a surface.
with time, the words are effaced by the frost and the rain
figurative his anger was effaced when he stepped into the open air
Example sentencesExamples
- The result is an important challenge to the new historicist tendency to efface the literary dimensions of early modern poetry.
- The concern with keeping everything ‘smooth and quiet’ in the novel, no matter what the social cost, presents white Southern life as determined to efface the rights of all African Americans.
- Davis, however, looks for an English equivalent that might work in both contexts, so as not to efface their suggestive interconnection.
- Some literary critics have argued that interactivity will efface literature itself.
- And rather than rely on imaginary resolutions that efface conflicts and contradictions, they aim to deal with the concrete particularity of the other in her unique and unrepeatable situation.
- In this way, Morrison implies that the traumatic impact of slavery can never be fully effaced.
- He consequently suffuses his speech with a rhetoric that effaces differences among Celts and Saxons.
- If the leaders maintained their authority, and if every person and factor in the devastated area would proceed to their work in the best order, the traces of the catastrophe would soon be effaced.
- Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film.
- Only by grossly simplifying and distorting the data, particularly in the domain of literary and textual production, can such differences be effaced or ignored between the cultures in the Republic and Northern Ireland.
- It seemed to me to symbolise how the Northern conflict had effaced so much personal history.
- Unlike Conceptual art, it has specific formal characteristics - geometric, monochromatic shapes - and a recurrent concern with effacing all signs of artistic personality and effort from the work itself.
- This ending is as bleak as any in the history of tragic drama - death, rape, slavery, fire destroying the towers, the city's very name effaced from the record of history by the acts of rapacious and murderous Greeks.
- She speaks of feeling as if her identity was being effaced by the requirement to appear neutrally Western.
- As many of the weather's varied meanings as both help and hindrance have been effaced, indeed, such preferences show up all the more clearly because practical considerations no longer obscure them.
- To subordinate the essentially cinematic as he does is itself a technique of ineffable skill; and to efface his signature as a director from the style of a film argues a modest purity of aim that is refreshing.
- Similarly, the images of discredited rulers were effaced in the monumental narrative reliefs which played so prominent a role in imperial propaganda art.
- Is the carnage associated with them a result of lurid scriptural interpretations of religion which have effaced the life of the spirit?
- Woodson is best known today as the father of African American history; many online accounts of his life misrepresent him as the youngest child of former slaves, effacing that he had any younger siblings, including Bessie Woodson Yancey.
- The uncertainty is effaced by the overwhelming tendency to fall towards the stable end-state.
2efface oneselfMake oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Talmud states that people's prayers are not accepted unless they efface themselves before God.
- She had effaced herself when he first knew her; she had made herself small, pretending there was less of her than there really was.
- The decorators strive to efface themselves, just as persons of the highest breeding possess the simplest manners.
- As author, she effaces herself absolutely in order to reflect and depict the story of Narcissus.
Synonyms
make oneself inconspicuous, keep out of sight, keep oneself to oneself, keep quiet, keep out of the public eye, avoid publicity, keep out of the limelight, lie low, keep a low profile, regard oneself as unimportant, treat oneself as unimportant, be diffident, be modest, be retiring, withdraw

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense ‘pardon or be absolved from (an offense)’): from French effacer, from e- (from Latin ex- ‘away from’) + face ‘face’.

单词	efface
释义	Definition of efface in English: efface verb ɪˈfeɪsəˈfeɪs [with object] 1Erase (a mark) from a surface. with time, the words are effaced by the rain Example sentencesExamples Davis, however, looks for an English equivalent that might work in both contexts, so as not to efface their suggestive interconnection. The uncertainty is effaced by the overwhelming tendency to fall towards the stable end-state. She speaks of feeling as if her identity was being effaced by the requirement to appear neutrally Western. Unlike Conceptual art, it has specific formal characteristics - geometric, monochromatic shapes - and a recurrent concern with effacing all signs of artistic personality and effort from the work itself. He consequently suffuses his speech with a rhetoric that effaces differences among Celts and Saxons. It seemed to me to symbolise how the Northern conflict had effaced so much personal history. Similarly, the images of discredited rulers were effaced in the monumental narrative reliefs which played so prominent a role in imperial propaganda art. Is the carnage associated with them a result of lurid scriptural interpretations of religion which have effaced the life of the spirit? Only by grossly simplifying and distorting the data, particularly in the domain of literary and textual production, can such differences be effaced or ignored between the cultures in the Republic and Northern Ireland. And rather than rely on imaginary resolutions that efface conflicts and contradictions, they aim to deal with the concrete particularity of the other in her unique and unrepeatable situation. This ending is as bleak as any in the history of tragic drama - death, rape, slavery, fire destroying the towers, the city's very name effaced from the record of history by the acts of rapacious and murderous Greeks. Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film. In this way, Morrison implies that the traumatic impact of slavery can never be fully effaced. If the leaders maintained their authority, and if every person and factor in the devastated area would proceed to their work in the best order, the traces of the catastrophe would soon be effaced. To subordinate the essentially cinematic as he does is itself a technique of ineffable skill; and to efface his signature as a director from the style of a film argues a modest purity of aim that is refreshing. Woodson is best known today as the father of African American history; many online accounts of his life misrepresent him as the youngest child of former slaves, effacing that he had any younger siblings, including Bessie Woodson Yancey. The concern with keeping everything ‘smooth and quiet’ in the novel, no matter what the social cost, presents white Southern life as determined to efface the rights of all African Americans. Some literary critics have argued that interactivity will efface literature itself. As many of the weather's varied meanings as both help and hindrance have been effaced, indeed, such preferences show up all the more clearly because practical considerations no longer obscure them. The result is an important challenge to the new historicist tendency to efface the literary dimensions of early modern poetry. 1.1 Cause (a memory or emotion) to disappear completely. nothing could efface the bitter memory Example sentencesExamples The unification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic was driven by the impulse to efface the memory of East Germany and the political, cultural and economic experience of East Germans. Synonyms erase, eradicate, expunge, blot out, rub out, wipe out, remove, eliminate, excise 2efface oneselfMake oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous. to efface oneself is not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake Example sentencesExamples She had effaced herself when he first knew her; she had made herself small, pretending there was less of her than there really was. The Talmud states that people's prayers are not accepted unless they efface themselves before God. The decorators strive to efface themselves, just as persons of the highest breeding possess the simplest manners. As author, she effaces herself absolutely in order to reflect and depict the story of Narcissus. Synonyms make oneself inconspicuous, keep out of sight, keep oneself to oneself, keep quiet, keep out of the public eye, avoid publicity, keep out of the limelight, lie low, keep a low profile, regard/treat oneself as unimportant, be modest/diffident/retiring, withdraw Derivatives effacement noun ɪˈfeɪsm(ə)nt This ‘changing of the guard’ entails an extraordinary effacement of Virgilian text precisely when Beatrice appears. Example sentencesExamples They also inadvertently revealed the scope of art history's effacement of this context of practice. The most radical loss of human singularity entails the effacement within the universal, or within the holocaust of spirit, of this relation between mother and daughter. Strikingly addressed are the hypocrisies and effacement within the tourist trade. It was an entirely sympathetic presentation, in which there was an effacement of the self, and a presentation of a fascinating body of work, where you're supposed to go with the writer into the houses of flagellation or the houses of prayer. Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'pardon or be absolved from (an offence)'): from French effacer, from e- (from Latin ex- 'away from') + face 'face'. Rhymes abase, ace, apace, backspace, base, bass, brace, case, chase, dace, embrace, encase, enchase, enlace, face, grace, interlace, interspace, in-your-face, lace, mace, misplace, outface, outpace, pace, place, plaice, race, space, Thrace, trace, upper case Definition of efface in US English: efface verbəˈfeɪsəˈfās [with object] 1Erase (a mark) from a surface. with time, the words are effaced by the frost and the rain figurative his anger was effaced when he stepped into the open air Example sentencesExamples The result is an important challenge to the new historicist tendency to efface the literary dimensions of early modern poetry. The concern with keeping everything ‘smooth and quiet’ in the novel, no matter what the social cost, presents white Southern life as determined to efface the rights of all African Americans. Davis, however, looks for an English equivalent that might work in both contexts, so as not to efface their suggestive interconnection. Some literary critics have argued that interactivity will efface literature itself. And rather than rely on imaginary resolutions that efface conflicts and contradictions, they aim to deal with the concrete particularity of the other in her unique and unrepeatable situation. In this way, Morrison implies that the traumatic impact of slavery can never be fully effaced. He consequently suffuses his speech with a rhetoric that effaces differences among Celts and Saxons. If the leaders maintained their authority, and if every person and factor in the devastated area would proceed to their work in the best order, the traces of the catastrophe would soon be effaced. Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film. Only by grossly simplifying and distorting the data, particularly in the domain of literary and textual production, can such differences be effaced or ignored between the cultures in the Republic and Northern Ireland. It seemed to me to symbolise how the Northern conflict had effaced so much personal history. Unlike Conceptual art, it has specific formal characteristics - geometric, monochromatic shapes - and a recurrent concern with effacing all signs of artistic personality and effort from the work itself. This ending is as bleak as any in the history of tragic drama - death, rape, slavery, fire destroying the towers, the city's very name effaced from the record of history by the acts of rapacious and murderous Greeks. She speaks of feeling as if her identity was being effaced by the requirement to appear neutrally Western. As many of the weather's varied meanings as both help and hindrance have been effaced, indeed, such preferences show up all the more clearly because practical considerations no longer obscure them. To subordinate the essentially cinematic as he does is itself a technique of ineffable skill; and to efface his signature as a director from the style of a film argues a modest purity of aim that is refreshing. Similarly, the images of discredited rulers were effaced in the monumental narrative reliefs which played so prominent a role in imperial propaganda art. Is the carnage associated with them a result of lurid scriptural interpretations of religion which have effaced the life of the spirit? Woodson is best known today as the father of African American history; many online accounts of his life misrepresent him as the youngest child of former slaves, effacing that he had any younger siblings, including Bessie Woodson Yancey. The uncertainty is effaced by the overwhelming tendency to fall towards the stable end-state. 2efface oneselfMake oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous. Example sentencesExamples The Talmud states that people's prayers are not accepted unless they efface themselves before God. She had effaced herself when he first knew her; she had made herself small, pretending there was less of her than there really was. The decorators strive to efface themselves, just as persons of the highest breeding possess the simplest manners. As author, she effaces herself absolutely in order to reflect and depict the story of Narcissus. Synonyms make oneself inconspicuous, keep out of sight, keep oneself to oneself, keep quiet, keep out of the public eye, avoid publicity, keep out of the limelight, lie low, keep a low profile, regard oneself as unimportant, treat oneself as unimportant, be diffident, be modest, be retiring, withdraw Origin Late 15th century (in the sense ‘pardon or be absolved from (an offense)’): from French effacer, from e- (from Latin ex- ‘away from’) + face ‘face’.
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