English > abrade: 2 senses > verb 1, contactMeaning | wear away. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
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Synonyms | corrade, abrase, rub down, rub off |
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Entailed by | roughen | make rough or rougher |
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Narrower | chafe, excoriate | tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading |
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rasp | scrape with a rasp |
Broader | wear away, wear off | diminish, as by friction |
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Spanish | corroerse, desgastar, erosionarse, gastarse, gastar, raer |
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Adjectives | abrasive | causing abrasion |
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Nouns | abradant | a substance that abrades or wears down |
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abrader, abradant | a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing |
abrasion | the wearing down of rock / rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice |
abrasion | erosion by friction |
abrasion | an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off |