ABRADE

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 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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they abrade    ... he / she / it abrades   
Past simple: abraded   
Past participle: abraded   
-ing form: abrading   

Sense 1

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

Derivation:

abradant (a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing)

abradant (a substance that abrades or wears down)

abrader (a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing)

abrasion (the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice)

abrasion (erosion by friction)

abrasion (an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off)

abrasive (causing abrasion)

Sense 2

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

Derivation:

abrader (a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing)

abrasive (causing abrasion)

 Context examples 

Abraded wound; excoriation or circumscribed removal of the superficial layers of the skin or mucous membrane.

(Abrasion, Food and Drug Administration)