Usually means: Make oneself appear insignificant or unnoticeable.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. efface: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. efface: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. efface: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. efface: Collins English Dictionary
  5. efface: Vocabulary.com
  6. efface: Wordnik
  7. efface: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. efface: Wiktionary
  9. efface: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. efface: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. efface: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Efface, efface: Dictionary.com
  13. efface: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Efface: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. efface: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. efface: Rhymezone
  17. Efface: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. efface: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. efface: Free Dictionary
  20. efface: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. efface: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. efface: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. efface: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. efface: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. efface: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
▸ verb:  (medicine, intransitive) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.

Similar:
erase, obliterate, rub out, wipe, wipe off, score out, expunge, blot out, unpaint, blot, more...

Opposite:
accentuate, highlight, emphasize

Types:
erasure, obliteration, obscuration, obfuscation, obfuscaton, more...

Phrases:
efface yourself, opposite of efface, an item used to efface written blunders, more...

Adjectives:
fair, self, epaulement, equal, ill, front, loss, poor, red, clean, last


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Similar:
erase, obliterate, rub out, wipe, wipe off, score out, expunge, blot out, unpaint, blot, more...

Opposite:
accentuate, highlight, emphasize

Types:
erasure, obliteration, obscuration, obfuscation, obfuscaton, more...

Phrases:
efface yourself, opposite of efface, an item used to efface written blunders, more...

Adjectives:
fair, self, epaulement, equal, ill, front, loss, poor, red, clean, last



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