to efface
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8.9
- verb
- /ɪˈfeɪs/
:
desaparecer
- The conventions that impose ignorance and silence upon the women of Cavendish's time efface the possibility of a female rhetoric worthy of fame.
- self-effacing
- effacing tendency
They're flexible, warm, kind, empathic, patient, self effacing, sweet, good people.
- They're flexible, warm, kind, empathic, patient, self effacing, sweet, good people.
- He personally goes through the sewers to clean them out and he just has this great set of qualities that he's very self effacing.
- Sometimes even if you try that kind of self effacing sarcasm in a narcissistic relationship, they will look at you oddly and say huh what?
- I really love that as a word and what it describes, I think is Oliver Berkman and Alan de Botton's approach this sort of very self effacing.
Examples
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In a way he cannot fully acknowledge, he also wants to efface her presence in his life.
Academic text (1999) -
But it's annoying when the existence of a movie effaces the book on which it's based.
Blog text (32) -
In order to change that attitude, he argued for effacing the distinction between applied and classical ethics.
Academic text (2016) -
Just as the ticks offer a counterpoint to the progress they symbolize, the plot of the pageant effaces its own illusion of a linear narrative.
Academic text (2017) -
For all its traditionalism, Air Raid registers this shift in the gendered character of the public sphere; the very fact that MacLeish must efface the public role of women suggests just how much women had begun to escape their once circumscribed roles.
Academic text (2016) -
To be truly happy, she decided to efface her worries and focus on the present.
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He chose to efface his contributions during the meeting, allowing others to shine.
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In a crowded room, she tried to efface herself to avoid drawing attention.
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Etymology
Efface in the sense of making yourself unnoticed comes from the same idea of taking away a 'face' or appearance, so to efface yourself is to 'remove' your presence or make yourself less visible.