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ABRADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abrade mean? 

ABRADE (verb)
  The verb ABRADE has 2 senses:

1. wear awayplay

2. rub hard or scrubplay

  Familiarity information: ABRADE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ABRADE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they abrade  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it abrades  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: abraded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: abraded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: abrading  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Wear away

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

abrade; abrase; corrade; rub down; rub off

Hypernyms (to "abrade" is one way to...):

wear away; wear off (diminish, as by friction)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abrade"):

chafe; excoriate (tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading)

rasp (scrape with a rasp)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

abradant (a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing)

abradant (a substance that abrades or wears down)

abrader (a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing)

abrasion (the wearing down of 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)

abrasive (causing abrasion)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Rub hard or scrub

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

abrade; scour

Context example:

scour the counter tops

Hypernyms (to "abrade" is one way to...):

rub (move over something with pressure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

abrader (a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing)

abrasive (causing abrasion)


 Context examples 


Abraded wound; excoriation or circumscribed removal of the superficial layers of the skin or mucous membrane.

(Abrasion, Food and Drug Administration)



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