abrade

Example Sentences

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The plywood and plastic are abraded to create furrows and gaps.

From Washington Post

Why is abstraction often associated with male-inflected industrial things and materials, like house paint and hot lead, and industrial processes like distilling, refining, abrading and polishing?

From Washington Post

Your clothes “are dingier from when you started washing them until now. It’s happening a little bit at a time. Because you didn’t sort at all, everything becomes abraded.”

From Washington Post

The tin’s raised pattern, weathered and abraded, yields the look of ancient African body scarification practiced as ritual ornamentation — here given an urban, Western edge.

From Los Angeles Times

Over-the-counter Compound W was completely wrong, perhaps because the wart is abraded.

From Seattle Times