0 present participle of efface
1 to remove something intentionally:
2 to behave in a modest way and treat the good things that you have achieved as if they are not important, often because you do not have much confidence
Their feeling of security was a self-deception, they were effacing an aspect of reality, a phenomenon which, in clinical psychiatry, is labelled denial.
Instead, he began to consider models for effacing a dualism between mechanism and organism.
This pushed organised women into the arms of the state as well as effacing gender differences.
Limiting investigations in this way emphasizes elite, verbal ways of knowing the world while effacing less textually oriented forms of cultural production.
Assimilation implies that a minority increasingly takes on the characteristics of the majority, in the process diluting or effacing cultural characteristics that mark them out as different.
Grafting, in other words, involves the strange practice of both drawing attention to a sense of verbal and musical identity yet at the same time effacing it.
