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Synonyms for abrade

Most common

wear away rub off scrape irritate scour chafe excoriate

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To rub or wear off; erode.

Related words

Word family
abradant abrader

Forms

Past participle
abraded
e.g. abraded → scraped, irritated, rubbed, grazed…

Example sentences

  • scrape I can barely scrape by on what I'm making now.
  • irritate What kind of things does Tom do that irritate you?
  • scour How our cat loves to scour someone else's dishes!
  • chafe The shoes will chafe if you don't wear socks.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
abradesteady
scraperising
irritaterising
scoursteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
rub1
4 letters
fret1
5 letters
grate1, graze1, scour2, chafe1
6 letters
scrape1, abrase
7 letters
corrade
8 letters
irritate3
9 letters
excoriate4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (scour2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
abraser
Deutsch
schmirgeln