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efface | css |

As a verb efface

is .

As a noun css is

(computer|languages).

efface

English

Verb

(effac)
  • To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
  • Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.
  • * 1825 , , The Talisman , A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15:
  • An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
  • To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out]] or [[strike out, striking out.
  • Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.
  • (reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
  • Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.
  • (medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
  • Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.

    Derived terms

    * effaceable * effacement * effacer * self-effacing

    See also

    * deface ----

    css

    English

    Noun

  • (computer, languages)
  • (media, DVD)
  • (military, rocketry) NATO prefix-code for Chinese surface-to-surface missile systems developed by the People's Republic of China
  • (nautical) (The designation for a survey ship operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service)
  • (historical, nautical, military) (The designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy)
  • Churg-Strauss syndrome
  • See also

    * (Canada) HMCS, CCGS * (Confederate States of America) USS * (NATO) SS