abrade
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /əˈbɹeɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪd
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin abrādō (“scrape off”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rādō (“scrape”). First attested in 1677.
Verb edit
abrade (third-person singular simple present abrades, present participle abrading, simple past and past participle abraded)
- (transitive) To rub or wear off; erode. [First attested in the late 17th century.][1]
- 2022 September 15, “NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain”, in Sean Potter, editor, NASA.gov[1], archived from the original on 15 September 2022[2]:
- “Wildcat Ridge” is the name given to a rock about 3 feet (1 meter) wide that likely formed billions of years ago as mud and fine sand settled in an evaporating saltwater lake. On July 20, the rover abraded some of the surface of Wildcat Ridge so it could analyze the area with the instrument called Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals, or SHERLOC.
- (transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate. [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
- (transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe. [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
- (transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
- (intransitive) To undergo abrasion.
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Translations edit
(transitive) to rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English abraiden. See abraid.
Verb edit
abrade (third-person singular simple present abrades, present participle abrading, simple past and past participle abraded)
- (transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrade”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.
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abrade
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abrāde