See efface in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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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."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible."
],
"links": [
[
"erase",
"erase"
],
[
"illegible",
"illegible"
],
[
"indiscernible",
"indiscernible"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 254:",
"text": "The bright records of the last hour effaced all the darker traces left by long and weary days.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out."
],
"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"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"inobtrusive",
"inobtrusive"
],
[
"modesty",
"modesty"
],
[
"diffidence",
"diffidence"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Medicine"
],
"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."
],
"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"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈfeɪs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪˈfeɪs/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪs"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "dasama",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "دَسَمَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"note": "خَمَلَ (ḵamala, literally “to be or become effaced”)",
"sense": "to erase"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṭalasa",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "طَلَسَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"note": "طَمَسَ (ṭamasa, literally “to be effaced”)",
"sense": "to erase"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "premahvam",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "премахвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zaličavam",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "заличавам"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "phah-chhat-siau",
"sense": "to erase",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Xiamen"
],
"word": "拍擦銷 /拍擦销"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mó",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "磨"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to erase",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "smazat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to erase",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vymazat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to erase",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zahladit"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "effacer"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "c̣ašla",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "წაშლა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "unkenntlich machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "unlesbar machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "verwischen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aposvíno",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "αποσβήνω"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "efacar"
},
{
"alt": "まっさつする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "massatsu suru",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "抹殺する"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shōkyo suru",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "消去する"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "dēlinō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "oblitterō"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "pusṇe",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "पुसणे"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "șterge"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stiratʹ",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "стирать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamazyvatʹ",
"sense": "to erase",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "замазывать"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to erase",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"perfective"
],
"word": "збри̏сати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to erase",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"perfective"
],
"word": "zbrȉsati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "borrar"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "-futa"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "bura"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "aḻi",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "அழி"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "láang",
"sense": "to erase",
"word": "ล้าง"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iztrivam",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"word": "изтривам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "začerkvam",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"word": "зачерквам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vymazat"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"word": "effacer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"word": "ausradieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"word": "auslöschen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"word": "zum Verschwinden bringen"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nuguisaru",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"word": "拭い去る"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stiratʹ",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"word": "стирать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cause to disappear as if by rubbing out",
"word": "borrar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "make oneself inobtrusive",
"word": "zich wegcijferen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "make oneself inobtrusive",
"word": "s’effacer"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "oneself or someone",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyčórkivatʹ",
"sense": "make oneself inobtrusive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вычёркивать"
}
],
"word": "efface"
}
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