effacing
present participle ofefface
| 单词 | effacing |
| 释义 | effacing present participle ofefface efface verb uk/ɪˈfeɪs/us/ɪˈfeɪs/effaceverb(REMOVE)[T]formal toremovesomethingintentionally: Thewholecountryhadtriedto efface thememoryof theolddictatorship. Deleting writing
effaceverb(BE MODEST)effaceyourself tobehavein amodestway andtreatthe good things that you haveachievedas if they are notimportant, often because you do not have muchconfidence See also self-effacing Shy and modest
Examplesofeffacingeffacing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Their feeling of security was a self-deception, they wereeffacingan aspect of reality, a phenomenon which, in clinical psychiatry, is labelled denial. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead, he began to consider models foreffacinga dualism between mechanism and organism. From theCambridge English Corpus This pushed organised women into the arms of the state as well aseffacinggender differences. From theCambridge English Corpus Limiting investigations in this way emphasizes elite, verbal ways of knowing the world whileeffacingless textually oriented forms of cultural production. From theCambridge English Corpus Assimilation implies that a minority increasingly takes on the characteristics of the majority, in the process diluting oreffacingcultural characteristics that mark them out as different. From theCambridge English Corpus Grafting, in other words, involves the strange practice of both drawing attention to a sense of verbal and musical identity yet at the same timeeffacingit. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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