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单词 efface
释义
efface
verb
uk
/ɪˈfeɪs/us
/ɪˈfeɪs/

effaceverb(REMOVE)

[T]formal
toremovesomethingintentionally:
抹去，擦掉；消除
Thewholecountryhadtriedto efface thememoryof theolddictatorship.整个国家都曾试图将那段独裁历史从记忆中抹去。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Deleting writing
  • blank
  • blanksomethingout
  • cross
  • crosssomeone/somethingoff (something)
  • crosssomethingout
  • delete
  • deletion
  • edit
  • editsomethingout
  • erasable
  • erase
  • erasure
  • rub
  • rubsomethingout
  • score
  • scoresomethingout/through
  • strike
  • strikesomethingout/through
  • X, x

effaceverb(BE MODEST)

effaceyourself
tobehavein amodestway andtreatthe good things that you haveachievedas if they are notimportant, often because you do not have muchconfidence
保持低调；使自己不被人注意；不露锋芒
See also
self-effacing
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Shy and modest
  • aw shucks
  • backward
  • bashful
  • bashfully
  • bashfulness
  • deprecating
  • humility
  • inadequacy
  • inadequate
  • inhibited
  • inhibition
  • mousy
  • retiring
  • self-conscious
  • self-consciously
  • self-consciousness
  • self-deprecating
  • unassuming
  • wallflower
  • withdrawn
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(Definition ofeffacefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofefface

efface
Having done so, they are finding opportunities to explore more fully the art of architecture wherein 'the engineer is effaced' and the lineamenta precede and direct the materia of building.
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Now, one person as a producer is separate from the other producer by the playing out of the division of labor - that "organization" which effaces the constitutive singularities.
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The other side of the coin to her devotion to patriarchal order is her 'character trait' based upon a 'polymorphic energy that effaces boundaries, collapses distinctions, and confuses identities'.
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The poem must therefore have been composed before 751, probably well before, when the dynasty-name was still familiar, in contrast to later times when it had been effaced.
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Assimilation implies that a minority increasingly takes on the characteristics of the majority, in the process diluting or effacing cultural characteristics that mark them out as different.
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To proponents of deliberative democracy, it may appear that my argument effaces the sharpest and most significant distinction between legitimate democratic politics and unprincipled political conflict.
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Grafting, in other words, involves the strange practice of both drawing attention to a sense of verbal and musical identity yet at the same time effacing it.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The scars that are being inflicted on our cities can be very quickly effaced.
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They gave us memories which will never be effaced.
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All copies were called in and as far as possible effaced.
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What harm would have been effaced by doing that?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The legislator's work, indeed, comes only occasionally, perhaps once in a generation, and then he effaces himself.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Only through working together in restored confidence can the history of the past 15 years or more be effaced and solutions of the various problems found.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
You have no provision for a verification of the names and addresses, and no signature may be withdrawn if it his been forged, altered, effaced, or procured by misrepresentation.
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We shall not allow you to gain the credit of having effaced that, and having brought your estate up to a very good pitch of management.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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