Crossword clues for abrade
abrade
- Rub away by friction
- Rub raw
- Wear by rubbing
- Use sandpaper on
- Use sandpaper on, say
- Wear roughly
- Use sandpaper
- Use a pumice stone
- Use a rasp
- Use a file, e.g
- Get grating
- What a beard might do
- Use emery
- Scrape away
- Scour, say
- Scour, e.g
- Scour a surface
- Sand, say
- Rub with emery
- Rub harshly against
- Really rub
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abrade \A*brade"\, v. t. Same as Abraid. [Obs.]
Abrade \Ab*rade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abraded; p. pr. & vb.
n. Abrading.] [L. abradere, abrasum, to scrape off; ab +
radere to scrape. See Rase, Raze.]
To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to
abrade rocks.
--Lyell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from Latin abradere "to scrape off" (see abrasion). Related: Abraded; abrading.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To rub off or wear off; erode. (First attested in the late 17th century.)(R:SOED5: page=7) 2 (context transitive English) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate. (First attested in the mid 18th century.) 3 (context transitive English) To irritate by rubbing; chafe. (First attested in the mid 18th century.) 4 (context transitive English) To cause the surface to become more rough. 5 (context intransitive English) To undergo abrasion.
WordNet
Usage examples of "abrade".
One corner of the bundle, wrapped solidly, had abraded to threads, but had not spoiled.
The wind gusted: canvas shook to a wind so hard and sand-edged it abraded his exposed hands.
As she leaned against the wall of the house, the rough texture of the red brick gently abraded her bare shoulders.
She knew she could not scale a blank seven-foot wall fast enough to save herself, especially not with one stingingly abraded hand, so she studied the trees as she ran.
Chrissie, took both her hands and held them gently in his, as aware of her abraded palm as he was aware of his own injured wrist.
As he suckled her breast, the scratch of his beard abraded her moist flesh.
He followed immediately after, covering her with his naked body, then immediately adjusted himself, side to side and up and down so that his chest hairs abraded her nipples and his erection rested between her legs.
His chest hair abraded her nipples, his erection pressed hard against her belly.
Where his face was not bruised or abraded, his usually milk-pale skin was gray.
Coarse dorneck linen abraded her own fingers as she twisted them into the folds of her apron.
Trace evidence on the body includes fibers and microscopic debris under the fingernails and adhering to blood and to abraded skin and hair.
A bruise may be distinguished from a post-mortem stain by the cuticle in the former often being abraded and raised.
Possibly the gums or the inside of the cheeks may have been scratched or abraded with a pin.
By the fifth, she no longer needed to stroke her throbbing, abraded clit.
The rough tips stroked, teased, and then he caught her abraded clit between two fingers.