Abrade

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  • intransitive verb. To wear down, rub away, or scrape by friction.
  • intransitive verb. To become worn or scraped by abrasion.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To rub or wear away; rub or scrape off; detach particles from the surface of by friction: as, glaciers abrade the rocks over which they pass; to abrade the prominences of a surface.
  • Synonyms Scratch, Chafe, etc. See scrape, transitive verb
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. Same as abraid.
  • transitive verb. To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Obsolete spelling of abraid.
  • verb. To cause the surface to become more rough.
  • verb. To undergo abrasion.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. rub hard or scrub
  • verb. wear away
    • Word Usage
    "• Start to "abrade" the area by distressing the marked area with sandpaper."
    cross-reference
    scrape  
    Form
    abraded  abrading  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rub  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blasé  buttonless  chilian  definitor  grater  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abate  ablate  abrase  abstract  atomize  
    variant
    abraid  
    verb-form
    abraded  abrades  abrading  
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