"efface" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /əˈfeɪs/, /ɪˈfeɪs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-efface.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-efface2.wav [Southern-England] Forms: effaces [present, singular, third-person], effacing [participle, present], effaced [participle, past], effaced [past]
Rhymes: -eɪs Etymology: From Middle French effacer (“erase”), from Old French esfacier (“remove the face”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|effacer||erase}} Middle French effacer (“erase”), {{uder|en|fro|esfacier||remove the face}} Old French esfacier (“remove the face”), {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-}} Head templates: {{en-verb}} efface (third-person singular simple present effaces, present participle effacing, simple past and past participle effaced)
  1. (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible. Tags: transitive Translations (to erase): دَسَمَ (dasama) (Arabic), طَلَسَ (ṭalasa) (Arabic), премахвам (premahvam) (Bulgarian), заличавам (zaličavam) (Bulgarian), 拍擦銷 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 拍擦销 (phah-chhat-siau) [Hokkien, Xiamen] (Chinese), (mó) (Chinese Mandarin), smazat [perfective] (Czech), vymazat [perfective] (Czech), zahladit [perfective] (Czech), effacer (French), წაშლა (c̣ašla) (Georgian), unkenntlich machen (German), unlesbar machen (German), verwischen (German), αποσβήνω (aposvíno) (Greek), efacar (Ido), 抹殺する (massatsu suru) (alt: まっさつする) (Japanese), 消去する (shōkyo suru) (Japanese), dēlinō (Latin), oblitterō (Latin), पुसणे (pusṇe) (Marathi), șterge (Romanian), стирать (stiratʹ) (Russian), замазывать (zamazyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), збри̏сати [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), zbrȉsati [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), borrar (Spanish), -futa (Swahili), bura (Tagalog), அழி (aḻi) (Tamil), ล้าง (láang) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-efface-en-verb-YRTHUfKa Disambiguation of 'to erase': 86 7 1 7
  2. (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out. Tags: transitive Translations (cause to disappear as if by rubbing out): изтривам (iztrivam) (Bulgarian), зачерквам (začerkvam) (Bulgarian), vymazat [perfective] (Czech), effacer (French), ausradieren (German), auslöschen (German), zum Verschwinden bringen (German), 拭い去る (nuguisaru) (Japanese), стирать (stiratʹ) (Russian), borrar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-efface-en-verb-CsmKLA5J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 49 18 9 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 19 51 15 15 Disambiguation of 'cause to disappear as if by rubbing out': 2 93 2 2
  3. (intransitive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence. Tags: intransitive Translations (make oneself inobtrusive): zich wegcijferen (Dutch), s’effacer (French), вычёркивать (vyčórkivatʹ) (english: oneself or someone) [imperfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-efface-en-verb-3lA8LojN Disambiguation of 'make oneself inobtrusive': 8 14 77 1
  4. (medicine, intransitive) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-efface-en-verb-v-vD7Jww Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: effaceable, effacement, effacer, ineffaceable, self-effacing Related terms: deface

Noun [French]

IPA: /e.fas/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-0x010C-efface.wav Forms: effaces [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} efface f (plural effaces)
  1. (Quebec) eraser Tags: Quebec, feminine Synonyms: gomme
    Sense id: en-efface-fr-noun-kBAHL4Xq Categories (other): Quebec French

Verb [French]

IPA: /e.fas/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-0x010C-efface.wav
Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} efface
  1. inflection of effacer:
    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person
    Sense id: en-efface-fr-verb-VcDiRD2c Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 13 58 29
  2. inflection of effacer:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular
    Sense id: en-efface-fr-verb-v3ZgSYn4

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for efface meaning in All languages combined (13.0kB)

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        "present",
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      "form": "effacing",
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        {
          "text": "Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15",
          "text": "An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting."
        }
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        "To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible."
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          "erase",
          "erase"
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          "illegible"
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          "indiscernible"
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        "(transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible."
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          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
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          "roman": "dasama",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "دَسَمَ"
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          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "ar",
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          "note": "خَمَلَ (ḵamala, literally “to be or become effaced”)",
          "sense": "to erase"
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          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ṭalasa",
          "sense": "to erase",
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          "code": "ar",
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          "sense": "to erase"
        },
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          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "premahvam",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "премахвам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zaličavam",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "заличавам"
        },
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          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "nan-hbl",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "拍擦銷"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "nan-hbl",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "phah-chhat-siau",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Xiamen"
          ],
          "word": "拍擦销"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "mó",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "磨"
        },
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          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
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        },
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          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zahladit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "effacer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "c̣ašla",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "წაშლა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "unkenntlich machen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "unlesbar machen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "verwischen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "aposvíno",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "αποσβήνω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "efacar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "alt": "まっさつする",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "massatsu suru",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "抹殺する"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shōkyo suru",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "消去する"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "dēlinō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "oblitterō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "pusṇe",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "पुसणे"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "șterge"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "stiratʹ",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "стирать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zamazyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "замазывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "збри̏сати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zbrȉsati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "borrar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "-futa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "bura"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "ta",
          "lang": "Tamil",
          "roman": "aḻi",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "அழி"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 7 1 7",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "láang",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "ล้าง"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "_dis": "23 49 18 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 51 15 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out."
      ],
      "id": "en-efface-en-verb-CsmKLA5J",
      "links": [
        [
          "disappear",
          "disappear"
        ],
        [
          "rubbing out",
          "rub out"
        ],
        [
          "striking out",
          "strike out"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "iztrivam",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "word": "изтривам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "začerkvam",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "word": "зачерквам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "vymazat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "word": "effacer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "word": "ausradieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "word": "auslöschen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "word": "zum Verschwinden bringen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nuguisaru",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "word": "拭い去る"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "stiratʹ",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "word": "стирать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 2 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
          "word": "borrar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence."
      ],
      "id": "en-efface-en-verb-3lA8LojN",
      "links": [
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          "inobtrusive",
          "inobtrusive"
        ],
        [
          "modesty",
          "modesty"
        ],
        [
          "diffidence",
          "diffidence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "8 14 77 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "make oneself inobtrusive",
          "word": "zich wegcijferen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 14 77 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "make oneself inobtrusive",
          "word": "s’effacer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 14 77 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "oneself or someone",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vyčórkivatʹ",
          "sense": "make oneself inobtrusive",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "вычёркивать"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor."
      ],
      "id": "en-efface-en-verb-v-vD7Jww",
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "cervix",
          "cervix"
        ],
        [
          "pregnancy",
          "pregnancy"
        ],
        [
          "thin",
          "thin"
        ],
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ],
        [
          "labor",
          "labor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine, intransitive) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/əˈfeɪs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈfeɪs/"
    },
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      ],
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  ],
  "word": "efface"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "effaces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "efface f (plural effaces)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
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      "word": "წაშლა"
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      "word": "unkenntlich machen"
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      "word": "efacar"
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      "alt": "まっさつする",
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      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "抹殺する"
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      "word": "消去する"
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      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "dēlinō"
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      "word": "oblitterō"
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      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "-futa"
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-0x010C-efface.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-0x010C-efface.wav.ogg",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.