efface in English

verb
1
erase (a mark) from a surface.
with time, the words are effaced by the frost and the rain
2
make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous.
As author, she effaces herself absolutely in order to reflect and depict the story of Narcissus.
synonyms:make oneself inconspicuouskeep out of sightkeep out of the limelightlie lowkeep a low profilewithdraw (oneself)
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "efface" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "efface", or refer to the context using the word "efface" in the English Dictionary.

1. Time would efface the memory.

2. Time alone efface those unpleasant memories.

3. Efface the footprints in the sands.

4. She would efface herself before her visitor.

5. Time alone will efface those unpleasant memories.

6. She would efface herself before her father's visitors.

7. He could not efface the impression from his mind.

8. She would have to efface herself before her visitor.

9. Shriley did her best to efface herself at parties.

10. He would have to efface himself before his visitors.

11. 19 She would have to efface herself before her visitor.

12. It takes many years to efface the unpleasant memories of a war.

13. Communist historians tried to efface whole segments of their nation's past.

14. Carbon dioxide and moisture threaten to efface the Lascaux cave drawings.

15. Time and weather have long ago efface the inscription on the monument.

16. Women often do not obtain positions of power because they tend to efface themselves.

17. Its efface small rat people right among them the memory of a toy.

18. You make me want to efface your name from that shiny award plaque.

19. Nothing can efface the last picture I have of them from my mind.

20. The whole country had tried to efface the memory of the old dictatorship.

21. The lapse of year will never efface that scene of ruin from my memory.

22. The lapse of year will never efface that scene of ruins from my memory.

23. He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope.

24. Blemishes like these upon the work of the profession obscure but do not efface the public services it renders.

25. Self-abnegating deference, on the other hand, expresses an attitude that is more intuitively self-undermining--to Abnegate oneself is, in some sense, to deny or to efface oneself