Efface vs Uneffaceable - What's the difference?
efface | uneffaceable |
To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
* 1825 , , The Talisman , A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15:
To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out]] or [[strike out, striking out.
(reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
(medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
Impossible to efface; permanent.
*{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Julian Hawthorne, title=Bressant, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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. }}
As a verb efface
is .As an adjective uneffaceable is
impossible to efface; permanent.efface
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Verb
(effac)- Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.
- An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
- Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.
- Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.
- Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.
Derived terms
* effaceable * effacement * effacer * self-effacingSee also
* deface ----uneffaceable
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