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abrade
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[əˈbreɪd], (Verb)
Definitions:
- scrape or wear away by friction or erosion
(e.g: it was a landscape slowly abraded by a fine, stinging dust)
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Origin
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late 17th century: from Latin abradere, from ab- ‘away, from’ + radere ‘to scrape’
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