EFFACE
Dictionary entry overview: What does efface mean?
• EFFACE (verb)
The verb EFFACE has 3 senses:
1. remove completely from recognition or memory
2. make inconspicuous
3. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
Familiarity information: EFFACE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• EFFACE (verb)
Meaning:
Remove completely from recognition or memory
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
efface; obliterate
Context example:
efface the memory of the time in the camps
Hypernyms (to "efface" is one way to...):
blur; dim; slur (become vague or indistinct)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make inconspicuous
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Context example:
efface oneself
Hypernyms (to "efface" is one way to...):
humble (cause to be unpretentious)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
rub out; score out; erase; wipe off; efface
Context example:
Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
Hypernyms (to "efface" is one way to...):
cancel; delete (remove or make invisible)
"Efface" entails doing...:
rub (move over something with pressure)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "efface"):
sponge (erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard)
cut out; scratch out (strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
