efface
About 0.32 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.
- verb To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.
- verb To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.
- verb Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
- verb Of a woman: to have the cervix thin and stretch in this manner.
Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.
Similar words
erase obliterate rub out wipe wipe off score out delete annihilate eradicate shutdown
Often followed by
the from it all himself them themselves their his
Word family
effaceable effaced effacement effacements effacer effacers effaces effacing
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