Usually means: Wear away by friction; scrape.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. abrade: Merriam-Webster
  2. abrade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abrade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abrade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abrade: Vocabulary.com
  6. abrade: Wordnik
  7. abrade: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abrade: Wiktionary
  9. abrade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abrade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abrade: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abrade: Dictionary.com
  13. abrade: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Abrade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. abrade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. abrade: Rhymezone
  17. Abrade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. abrade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. abrade: FreeDictionary.org
  20. abrade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. abrade: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. abrade: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. abrade: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrade: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrade: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrade: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. abrade: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Abrade: MedFriendly Glossary
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  4. abrade: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrade: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrade: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To undergo abrasion.
▸ verb:  (transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid. [(transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.]

Similar:
abrase, corrade, rub down, scrape, scour, stub, skin, rub off, wear off, erode, more...

Opposite:
smooth, polish, buff

Types:
sandpaper, steel wool, sand, glass, stone, leather, sandstone, sand dune, more...

Colors:
    rust,     copper,     bronze,     ochre,     sienna, more...


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Similar:
abrase, corrade, rub down, scrape, scour, stub, skin, rub off, wear off, erode, more...

Opposite:
smooth, polish, buff

Types:
sandpaper, steel wool, sand, glass, stone, leather, sandstone, sand dune, more...

Colors:
    rust,     copper,     bronze,     ochre,     sienna, more...



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