| VERB | contact | corrade, abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off | wear away |
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| Meaning | wear away. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | abrade, 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 | |
| Nouns | corrasion | erosion by friction |
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