What is "abrades"

Usage examples of "abrades".

He sweeps her forehead, pinches her nostrils, abrades her cheeks and, finally, while her whole body is squirming in protest, scrubs her lips, her words shattered and smothered.

But I should go on using the ointment for a few days yet, in this frost the skin dries and abrades easily.

Hans’ fingers dig into the soft flesh of her shoulders and his cheek, rough with blond stubble, abrades her cheek.

A broiling, sticky night of the sort that abrades that last thin barrier between the civilized man and the monster crouched in his soul.

Again voice often abrades the throat, and shouting in passing forth makes the windpipe more rough: when to wit the first-beginnings of voices have risen up in larger mass and commenced to pass abroad through their strait passage, you are to know the door of the mouth now crammed itself is abraded.