abrasion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an area of skin scraped or worn away by friction

   The fall left a shallow abrasion on her knee.

2. 2
   noun

   the process of scraping, rubbing, or wearing a surface away by friction

   Wind-driven sand caused abrasion of the exposed rock.

From French abrasion and Medieval Latin abrasio ("a scraping"), from Latin abradere ("to scrape off"), formed from ab- ("away") + radere ("to scrape").

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