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ABRADE

Dictionary entry overview: What does abrade mean?

• ABRADE (verb)
The verb ABRADE has 2 senses:

1. wear away
2. rub hard or scrub

Familiarity information: ABRADE used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ABRADE (verb)

Sense 1

abrade ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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

Sense 2

abrade ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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

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