efface

Word family adjectiveeffaceablenouneffacementeffacerverbefface

ef·face /ɪˈfeɪs/ verb [transitiveT] formal

1 REMOVEto destroy or remove something 消除；抹去 SYN erase, → deface

Nothing can efface the last picture I have of them from my mind.

没有什么能抹去他们在我脑海中留下的最后印象。

2. efface yourself formal HIDE/NOT SHOWto behave in a quiet way so that people do not notice or look at you 使(自己)不引人注目；不露锋芒

→ self-effacing

Examples from the Corpus

efface• It also reconciles two economic and social experiences, effacing class through images and illusions.• Afraid not only of assault but afraid that hidden away I would be effaced, forgotten.• Or, in terms of the concerns of this article, the gay writer had been effaced, leaving a blemish-free heterosexual text.• Carbon dioxide and moisture threaten to efface the Lascaux cave drawings.• Blemishes like these upon the work of the profession obscure but do not efface the public services it renders.• Communist historians tried to efface whole segments of their nation's past.

Origin efface

(1400-1500) French effacer, from face “face, appearance”

单词	efface
释义	efface Word family adjectiveeffaceablenouneffacementeffacerverbefface ef·face /ɪˈfeɪs/ verb [transitiveT] formal 1 REMOVEto destroy or remove something 消除；抹去 SYN erase, → deface Nothing can efface the last picture I have of them from my mind. 没有什么能抹去他们在我脑海中留下的最后印象。 2. efface yourself formal HIDE/NOT SHOWto behave in a quiet way so that people do not notice or look at you 使(自己)不引人注目；不露锋芒 → self-effacing Examples from the Corpus efface• It also reconciles two economic and social experiences, effacing class through images and illusions.• Afraid not only of assault but afraid that hidden away I would be effaced, forgotten.• Or, in terms of the concerns of this article, the gay writer had been effaced, leaving a blemish-free heterosexual text.• Carbon dioxide and moisture threaten to efface the Lascaux cave drawings.• Blemishes like these upon the work of the profession obscure but do not efface the public services it renders.• Communist historians tried to efface whole segments of their nation's past. Origin efface (1400-1500) French effacer, from face “face, appearance”
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