Word Meanings - ABRADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABRADE)

• Graze
• Shave
• scrape
• skim
• abrade
• shear
• Scrape Grate
• confricate
• rasp
• scratch
• mark
• groove

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ABRADE)

• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to ABRADE)

• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• SHEAR
  To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• SHEARS
  The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. Rotary shears. See under Rotary. (more info) 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: An instrument consisting
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• SHEARBILL
  The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
• SHEARN
  Dung; excrement. Holland.
• INDENTEDLY
  With indentations.
• INDENTURE
  A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
• GRATED
  Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.
• INDENTED
  Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like
• INDENTION
  See 4
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• SHEARWATER
  Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater , the dusky shearwater , and the greater shearwater , are well-known species
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• SCRATCHWEED
  Cleavers.
• GRATER
  One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• REGRATE
  To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. Derham.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• INTEGRATE
  To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of. (more info) 1. To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect. "That conquest rounded and integrated the glorious empire." De Quincey. Two
• REINTEGRATE
  To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reas, to reintegrate a nation. Bacon.