单词 | effacement |
释义 | effacement (once / 15552 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY effacement: effacements, self-effacement+/efface: effaceable, effaced, effacement, effaces, effacing/effacing: self-effacing USAGE EXAMPLESAll the effacements and contortions of art and art-designating institutions are unmasked. The New Yorker(Dec 16, 2015) He consistently finds loveliness in things like fog and ruins, sites of damage or effacement that seem to glorify what’s been erased. Slate(Nov 04, 2015) To desentimentalize the Confederate banner and to insist on its removal from statehouse grounds should not mean the wholesale effacement of history. Washington Post(Jun 26, 2015) 1 n withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous 2Syn|Hyper self-effacement withdrawal the act of withdrawing n shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor Hyper biological process, organic process a process occurring in living organisms |
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