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  • present participle of abrade.

abrading

ADJECTIVE
scratching
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2025

On the way up, it will scout the rocks, including abrading more patches to see rock interiors.

From Scientific American Jun. 7, 2022

And, beyond that, Dr. Tarly cured greyscale with more abrading than I would have liked.

From The New Yorker Apr. 12, 2019

A cool, Cartesian game versus an ardent, abrading one.

From New York Times Aug. 24, 2011

But the waves are perpetually employed in abrading and fashioning the materials already strewed over the beach.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell




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