efface
/əˈfeɪs/ · verb
Meaning
- To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
- To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
- To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
- Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
- Of a woman: to have the cervix thin and stretch in this manner.
Etymology / origin
From Middle French effacer (“erase”), from Old French esfacier (“remove the face”).
- *dʰeh₁-(ine-pro)→
- esfacier(Old French)→
- effacer(frm)→
- efface (English)
- Relations: uder, uder, root
Related words
Descendant words
- efacar(Ido) (bor)
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