effacement
About 0.32 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
- noun Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
- noun A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
Similar words
self-effacement sulcal expunction expunging expunctuation erasure erasion extersion erasement razure
Often followed by
of and in is or that was which as
Word family
effacements
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