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Abrasion definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ABRA'SION, n. abra'zhun. The act of wearing or rubbing off; also substance worn off by attrition.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off [syn: abrasion, scratch, scrape, excoriation]
2: erosion by friction [syn: abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detrition]
3: the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice [syn: grinding, abrasion, attrition, detrition]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Medieval Latin abrasion-, abrasio, from Latin abradere Date: 1554 1. a. a wearing, grinding, or rubbing away by friction b. irritation 2. an abraded area of the skin or mucous membrane

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the scraping or wearing away (of skin, rock, etc.). 2 a damaged area resulting from this. Etymology: L abrasio (as ABRADE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abrasion Ab*ra"sion, n. [L. abrasio, fr. abradere. See Abrade.] 1. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. 2. The substance rubbed off. --Berkeley. 3. (Med.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. --Dunglison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(abrasions) An abrasion is an area on a person's body where the skin has been scraped. (FORMAL) He had severe abrasions to his right cheek. = graze, cut N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Friction, attrition, rubbing, disintegration, wearing away, wearing off, rubbing off, rubbing down, wearing down. See Confrication.

Moby Thesaurus

ablation, abrasive, abstraction, atomization, attrition, beating, blemish, break, brecciation, buffing, burn, burnishing, chafe, chafing, check, chip, comminution, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, crumbling, crushing, cut, deduction, detrition, disintegration, dressing, erasure, erosion, filing, flash burn, fracture, fragmentation, fray, frazzle, fretting, gall, galling, gash, granulation, granulization, grating, grazing, grinding, hurt, incision, injury, laceration, lesion, levigation, limation, mashing, mortal wound, mutilation, polishing, pounding, powdering, puncture, purification, rasping, refinement, removal, rent, rip, rubbing away, run, rupture, sandblasting, sanding, scald, scorch, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, second-degree burn, shining, shredding, slash, smashing, smoothing, sore, stab, stab wound, subduction, sublation, subtraction, taking away, tear, third-degree burn, trauma, trituration, wear, wearing away, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench