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 --
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.
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.
Limiting investigations in this way emphasizes elite, verbal ways of knowing the world while effacing less textually oriented forms of cultural production.
This pushed organised women into the arms of the state as well as effacing gender differences.
Instead, he began to consider models for effacing a dualism between mechanism and organism.
Their feeling of security was a self-deception, they were effacing an aspect of reality, a phenomenon which, in clinical psychiatry, is labelled denial.
