efface

verb
🔊/ɪˈfeɪs/
🔊/ɪˈfeɪs/
(formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they efface
🔊/ɪˈfeɪs/
🔊/ɪˈfeɪs/
he / she / it effaces
🔊/ɪˈfeɪsɪz/
🔊/ɪˈfeɪsɪz/
past simple effaced
🔊/ɪˈfeɪst/
🔊/ɪˈfeɪst/
past participle effaced
🔊/ɪˈfeɪst/
🔊/ɪˈfeɪst/
-ing form effacing
🔊/ɪˈfeɪsɪŋ/
🔊/ɪˈfeɪsɪŋ/
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  1. efface something to make something disappear; to remove something消除;抹去;擦掉
  2. efface yourself to not attract attention to yourself; to make yourself seem unimportant
    • In his art he effaces himself almost completely.在他的艺术中,他几乎完全消失了。
    see also self-effacing
  3. Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘pardon or be absolved from (an offence)’): from French effacer, from e- (from Latin ex- ‘away from’) + face ‘face’.