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Synonyms for efface

efface yourself

Synonyms

  • make yourself inconspicuous
  • withdraw
  • be retiring
  • keep a low profile
  • be timid
  • be diffident
  • be bashful
  • keep out of the limelight
  • be modest
  • keep out of the public eye
  • be unassertive
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Synonyms for efface

to remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean

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Synonyms for efface

remove completely from recognition or memory

make inconspicuous

Related Words

remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

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It activates genes that produce acid-resistance proteins, and it keeps a firm lock on the attaching and effacing genes that will go to work in the intestine.
Tests of localized adherence, autoaggregation, and attaching and effacing were performed as described (6,7).
Another mode of such "writing" was later effected by way of the artist's signature dots, which seemed to serve as effusive punctuation marks (sometimes rather tautologically effacing faces).
A new adherent form of an attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (eaeA+,bfp-) to the intestinal epithelial cells of chicks.
EPEC is one of a class of pathogens identified as causing attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions on intestinal cells (1).
These cannons, bombs, and so forth, such as Contraerea (Antiaircraft Gun) and Cannone "Bella Ciao," both 1966, seem anything other than menacing because they are so clearly nonfunctional; they evoke not violence but playfulness, while effacing the boundary between sculpture and installation.
Herbert, in contrast to Donne, writes poetry in which annihilation is confronted healthily, with the poet submitting to death by effacing himself in his poetry.
"La mia casa dov'e?" (Where is my home?), 2002, was a series of drawings the artist made by partly covering over parts of old architectural prints, as if Favelli had considered the palazzi they picture as possible dwelling places--for the soul, at least--and ended up effacing them instead.
A year before her death, it seemed that this exploitation of her own "material" had reached a definitive end, for in her last works the outer veil of her skin was replaced with bright wrappings of gowns that, completely effacing the body, seemed to forecast her inevitable end.
For those in search of a kinder, gentler art world, the novelty of an artist whose self effacing practice includes providing exhibition opportunities for his colleagues is no doubt appealing.
Emphasizing the experiential quality of the encounter, the installation will work to preserve and create context, effacing the exhibition space of the Halle Tony Gamier with elements of the works ' native habitats, including dirt, wooden boards, and huts.