Modest vs Efface - What's the difference?

As an adjective modest

is not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.

(en-adj)

Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.

Small, moderate in size.

He earns a modest amount of money.

Her latest novel was a modest success.

(especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.

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* immodest

* modest proposal * modesty

(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.

* effaceable * effacement * effacer * self-effacing