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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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whoever said effacement was all or nothing was wrong-- night effaces
Right leg brushes to tendu efface, left leg plies; body bends forward from hips with a flat back; left arm raises overhead; right arm holds the top corner of chair.
And this literature is apt to further erode or distort or efface any remaining Christian shape or symbols in the children's minds and souls.
There are powerful continuities between Kaisserreich and Federal Republic--the German bourgeoisie as such never "fell"--which the form of Gall's account works to efface. But providing we remember the necessary artifice, this book can be read with great enjoyment and profit.
But neither acting nor spectacular theatrical effects (including the often excellent lighting by Yuri Timofeev) can efface the prevailing tastelessness of Eifman's productions.
To illustrate how the figures of court dance became clearly defined spatially, a male dancer is shown performing the balletic directions (alignments), such as croise devant, ecarte, efface. An attempt is made to link these poses to illustrations of the period; the positions shown, however, are not only inexact but are of such demicaractere performers as Auguste Vestris.
Colleen said, `Oh, what do you know?' Of course, Mom jumped up and proceeded to do a cabriole perfectly in efface front in our living room.
These students should be told, however, that not all dances end the phrase with pointe tendue efface, and that there is a great gulf between what Berkut teaches and what specialists in authentic historical dance have learned through years of devoted, detailed scrutiny of original sources.
It is the work of a scholar, discerning beyond his years, who managed to efface boundaries that traditionally circumscribe scholarly fields.
White is a sensitive reader of Herbert, attuned to subtleties and implications in the poetry that appreciate rather than efface their tensions.
But then it seems that such a radical critique of the late-Modernist triumphalism of Minimal and post-Minimal sculpture could only emerge from a cultural context in which historical consciousness and subject definitions were still intricately bound up with the recognition that avant-garde practices efface memory as much as they reconstitute it.