| 单词 | abrade |
| 释义 | abrade (once / 4940 pages) v When you abrade something, you scrub it vigorously. To clean your dirty bathtub well, you'll have to abrade it with a scrub brush and powdered bleach. When you scour something so vigorously that you remove dirt, grime, or even the surface of the thing you're scrubbing, you abrade it. You might need to abrade your fingers with a nail brush to get them clean after working on your oily car engine all afternoon. The word abrade is related to abrasion — a scrape on the skin — and both words come from the Latin root abradere, which means "to scrape off." WORD FAMILYabrade: abradant, abraded, abrader, abrades, abrading, abrasion, abrasive+/abrasion: abrasions/abrasive: abrasively, abrasiveness, abrasives USAGE EXAMPLESThe ropes of layered and abraded color in "Not a Mask" resemble the gorgeous mottled-gem surfaces of Ken Price. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) He was crying, holding out his abraded hands. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) To see what Dubuffet was really up to, stick with the black-and-white works on paper, which the artist frequently scratched and abraded. New York Times(Sep 29, 2016) 1v rub hard or scrub Syn|Hyper scour rub move over something with pressure 2v wear away Syn|Hypo|Hyper abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off chafe, excoriate tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading raspscrape with a rasp wear away, wear off diminish, as by friction |
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