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ABRASE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they abrase ... he / she / it abrases
Past simple: abrased
-ing form: abrasing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
abrade; abrase; corrade; rub down; rub off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "abrase" is one way to...):
wear away; wear off (diminish, as by friction)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abrase"):
chafe; excoriate (tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading)
rasp (scrape with a rasp)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something