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chafe, corrade, erode, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, rasp, rub, wear
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The surfaces are raw, abraded, sometimes buckled and creased. — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, "One artist’s solution to the racial inequities embedded in books: Rip them apart," 5 Aug. 2019 Another great crossover from the auto-body industry is the scouring pastes that clean and abrade a surface at the same time. — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, "10 Smart Spray Painting Tips for a Great-Looking Paint Job," 11 Mar. 2019 Try to avoid footwear that will further abrade the area. — Talia Abbas, SELF, "How to Stretch Shoes That Are Too Small," 24 Dec. 2018 That helpless, screaming, wetting, nipple-abrading bundle of joy wouldn’t really change the woman who birthed it. — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, "Mom-Coms Latch On to the Raw Reality of New Motherhood," 31 May 2018 Still, that box must contain gadgetry that would be the envy of 007 - fadeaways abrading opposing hopes like a sander, twisting layups augering through the defense, dunks slamming like hammers. — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, "LeBron James and the toolbox, the repertoire, the sweep: Bill Livingston (photos)," 7 May 2018 Nearly two dozen of the photographs in the exhibition are vintage prints; another 58 are newly printed from negatives abraded and speckled by time. — Jason Farago, New York Times, "J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, in Black and White," 16 Jan. 2018 In stonewashing, the stones organically abrade the fabric to further loosen the weave and increase overall flexibility and softness. — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, "Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know About Summer Bedding Fabrics," 9 July 2017 The authors proposed that Ganlea (as well as the other amphipithecids) often fed on hard seeds and nuts that abraded the canines of these primates. — Brian Switek, WIRED, "Ganlea megacania and more "missing link" mania," 1 July 2009These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'abrade.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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