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effacement
 
Noun effacement has 2 senses
  1. effacement - shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor
    --1 is a kind of     organic process, biological process
    --1 is a part of
     parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
  2. effacement, self-effacement - withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous
    --2 is a kind of withdrawal
    Derived form: verb efface2
eff effable effacacious effacacy efface efface sentence effaceable effaced effacement effacious effecacy effeciant effecient effecive effeciveness effect effect

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