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effacing

/ih-feys/US // ɪˈfeɪs //UK // (ɪˈfeɪs) //

擦除,擦亮,抹去,擦亮的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ef·faced, ef·fac·ing.

    • : to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one's unhappy memories.
    • : to rub out, erase, or obliterate.
    • : to make inconspicuous; withdraw modestly or shyly.

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Examples

  • Few writers are so wise and self-effacing and emotionally honest all in one breath.

  • Even over video chat, Ishiguro, or “Ish” as he introduces himself, is charming and self-effacing company.

  • I hurried away, and it was long before I could efface the impression made upon my mind by this hideous spectacle.

  • Thus disappeared from his life the only stain which his restoration had not been able utterly to efface.

  • Then he hastily laid earth in the interstices round it, and tried to efface all signs of its having been recently removed.

  • Nothing can ever cure me, no dream of my mind can ever efface the dream of my heart.

  • She has long been dead, but time will never efface from my mind a tender recollection of her kindness.