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CORRADE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corrade mean?
• CORRADE (verb)
The verb CORRADE has 1 sense:
1. wear away
Familiarity information: CORRADE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wear away
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
abrade; abrase; corrade; rub down; rub off
Hypernyms (to "corrade" is one way to...):
wear away; wear off (diminish, as by friction)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "corrade"):
chafe; excoriate (tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading)
rasp (scrape with a rasp)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
corrasion (erosion by friction)
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