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abrade

[ UK /ɐbɹˈe‍ɪd/ ]
[ US /æˈbɹeɪd/ ]
VERB
  1. rub hard or scrub
    scour the counter tops
  2. wear away

How To Use abrade In A Sentence

  • Microfracture exposes the subchondral bone, gently abrades it, yet leaves it intact during an arthroscopic procedure.
  • The skin after trip is met abrade one chunk.
  • He felt his skin abrade as he skidded off the tarp, but he lay still, apart from eyes blinking in the sudden light. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • My skin was abraded and very tender.
  • Her instants of selfless love, so focused upon me, are balm for my abraded ego.
  • The freshly abraded specimen must then be washed in industrial spirit and Analar acetone.
  • She stayed longer than usual in the shower, wishing for the rushing hot needles of water to abrade her skin and erode the still-vivid impressions of his touch.
  • Sures must have had tongue in cheek when she contrived Ghirlandina, a cast-paper relief of an old, crooked, leaning tower, wonderfully abraded and polychromed.
  • The Ogluinsky mine specimens are millimeter-sized octahedra, and the Nicolay mine specimens are unabraded and have mica attached.
  • Nothing had gotten past them, but the lenses were badly abraded by the hurtling glass particles from the bullet-pierced windshield.
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