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ABRASE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does abrase mean?
• ABRASE (verb)
The verb ABRASE has 1 sense:
1. wear away
Familiarity information: ABRASE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they abrase ... he / she / it abrases
Past simple: abrased
Past participle: abrased
-ing form: abrasing
... he / she / it abrases Past simple: abrased
Past participle: abrased
-ing form: abrasing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wear away
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
abrade; abrase; corrade; rub down; rub off
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
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