effacement

n. 抹消, 抹杀

词形变化

effacements 复数 effacements

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.

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    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries Among the many very baffling inconsistencies of Shakespeare's life the outstanding mystery is surely this: that of all his prolific work […] not a line of manuscript is known to exist today. Nothing approaching this complete effacement can be paralleled in literary history […]

  2. 2.

    Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.

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  3. 3.

    A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.

    可数 不可数 医学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

self-effacement

上位词 1

withdrawal

整体词 7

labor labour confinement childbed lying-in parturiency travail

词源

Borrowed from French effacement.

来源：wiktionary