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Efface vs Uneffaceable - What's the difference?

efface | uneffaceable |

As a verb efface

is .

As an adjective uneffaceable is

impossible to efface; permanent.

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 ----

    uneffaceable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible to efface; permanent.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Julian Hawthorne, title=Bressant, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=How could the events of a few hours wear such deep and uneffaceable channels in human lives? }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=William James Stillman, title=The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Edward Dowden, title=Robert Browning, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The secondary personages in Richardson's "Clarissa" grow somewhat faint in our memories; but the figures of his heroine and of Lovelace remain not only uneffaceable but undimmed by time. }}