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effacement
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun effacement has 2 senses
- effacement(n = noun.process) Array - shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor; Array is a kind of biological process, organic process
- effacement(n = noun.act) self-effacement - withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous; Array is a kind of withdrawal
is a part of childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail
Derived form verb efface2
CIDE DICTIONARY
effacement, n. [Cf. F. effacement.].
The act if effacing; also, the result of the act. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
effacement
Obliteration
N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.
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