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Definition of Efface

Efface
Efface Ef*face", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Effaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Effacing.] [F. effacer; pref. es- (L. ex) + face face; prop., to destroy the face or form. See Face, and cf. Deface.] 1. To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin. 2. To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away. Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received. --Bacon. Syn: To blot out; expunge; erase; obliterate; cancel; destroy. -- Efface, Deface. To deface is to injure or impair a figure; to efface is to rub out or destroy, so as to render invisible.

Meaning of Efface from wikipedia

- Look up effacement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Effacement may refer to: Effacement (histology), the shortening, or thinning, of a tissue. Cervical...
- In mathematics, an effaceable functor is an additive functor F between abelian categories C and D for which, for each object A in C, there exists a monomorphism...
- Cervical effacement or cervical ripening refers to the thinning and shortening of the cervix. This process occurs during labor to prepare the cervix for...
- Effacer le tableau (French pronunciation: [efɑse lə tablo], literally "erase the board" or "clean the slate") was the operational name given to the genocide...
- Effacement is the shortening, or thinning, of a tissue. It can refer to cervical effacement. It can also refer to a process occurring in podocytes in...
- The locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) is a moderately conserved pathogenicity island consisting of 35,000 base pairs in the bacteria Escherichia coli...
- Landerneau [fr] as well as the Prix Goncourt du premier roman for Un homme effacé, published by éditions Gallimard. A former student at the École normale...
- and virtues. It is not m****ness or self-deprecating thought, but the effacing of oneself to something higher. Humility is not to think lowly of oneself...
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- Omophron obliteratum, the effaced round sand beetle, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Central America and North America...