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abradea‧brade /əˈbreɪd/ verb [intransitive, transitive] technical abradeOrigin: 1600-1700 Latin abradere, from ab- ‘away’ + radere ‘to rub hard’ VERB TABLEabrade |
Present | I, you, we, they | abrade | | he, she, it | abrades | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | abraded | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have abraded | | he, she, it | has abraded | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had abraded | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will abrade | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have abraded |
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Present | I | am abrading | | he, she, it | is abrading | | you, we, they | are abrading | Past | I, he, she, it | was abrading | | you, we, they | were abrading | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been abrading | | he, she, it | has been abrading | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been abrading | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be abrading | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been abrading |
- It amazed her now how completely love could abrade those sharp edges.
- The only way to shape it is to abrade it with even harder substances.
- We are chalk and cheese; our personalities are radically different and likely to abrade each other.
to rub something so hard that the surface becomes damaged |