abradedadj.

1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis iv. i. 489/1 To break and destroy the Acrimony of the Juices, and fill up the abraded Cavities with a better Substance.

1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 118 The large Blisters, raised by such Applications, from the abraded Vessels spewing out their liquid Contents.

1818 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1 377 The line which separates the natural from the abraded surface..extends backwards in the manner represented in the plate.

1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith iv. 138 What is every word but a condensed fragment of history, on whose abraded surface is still legible the handwriting of countless generations of minds?

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. ii. [Nestor] 29 Stale smoky air hung in the study with the smell of drab abraded leather of its chairs.

1995 S. K. Penman When Christ & his Saints Slept (1996) xxi. 322 She rubbed an herbal ointment into Maude's blistered, abraded skin.

1724 W. Stukeley Of Spleen 95 As life consists in action and motion, a constant supply [of fat] will be necessary for the abraded particles thereof.

1799 Repertory of Arts 10 307 For the better discharge of the abraded matter, without the necessity of drawing out the tool from time to time, this stem may be twisted or inclined spiral-wise.

1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 155 Those youthful martyrs..cannot have restored to them the abraded cuticle they have lost.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. xii. 362 Composed of the broken and abraded particles of older rocks.

1936 Geogr. Jrnl. 87 149 Abraded material is partly pulled down to be built into the shore-face terrace, but most is transported along shore.

1992 Brit. Plastics & Rubber (Nexis) July 22 The machine is dry-cycled for up to three hours to eliminate dust, contaminants and abraded particles.