| VERB | contact | abrade, corrade, abrase, rub down, rub off | wear away |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact | abrade, scour | rub hard or scrub |
| Meaning | wear away. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | corrade, abrase, rub down, rub off | |
| Entailed by | roughen | make rough or rougher |
| Narrower | chafe, excoriate | tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading |
| rasp | scrape with a rasp | |
| Broader | wear away, wear off | diminish, as by friction |
| Spanish | corroerse, desgastar, erosionarse, gastarse, gastar, raer | |
| Adjectives | abrasive | causing abrasion |
| Nouns | abradant | a substance that abrades or wears down |
| 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 | |
| Meaning | rub hard or scrub. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | scour | |
| Broader | rub | Move over something with pressure |
| Spanish | desgastar, fregar | |
| Catalan | fregar | |
| Adjectives | abrasive | causing abrasion |
| Nouns | abrader | a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing |
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