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单词 abrasive
释义
abrasive
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What does an obnoxious person have in common with sandpaper? Both are abrasive. Anything that grates or irritates — physically or metaphorically — can be described using this adjective.
The history of the word abrasive illustrates how a word typically enters the English language and then changes with time. The English verb abrade "to wear down by scraping" entered the language from Latin abradere "to scrape off" in the late 1600s. Some 200 years later, the adjective form of the word — abrasive — came into use to describe a type of grinding tool. By the 1920s, abrasive had acquired the more figurative sense of annoying and infuriating. If you find someone abrasive, he or she grinds away at your nerves.
WORD FAMILY
abrasive: abrasively, abrasiveness, abrasives+/abrade: abradant, abraded, abrader, abrades, abrading, abrasion, abrasive/abrasion: abrasions
USAGE EXAMPLES
Trump in his own unique, almost mystical way is able to speak a common language that is abrasive and sometimes unattractive but always digestible.”
Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016)
People often asked him about it, and he realized it might appear abrasive to some.
Washington Times(Dec 06, 2016)
“People expect me to be angry, bitter. They expect to me be abrasive, aggressive. I’m not.”
New York Times(Dec 04, 2016)
1adj causing abrasion
Syn
scratchy
rough, unsmooth
having or caused by an irregular surface
2adj sharply disagreeable; rigorous
an abrasive character
Syn
harsh
disagreeable
not to your liking
3n a substance that abrades or wears down
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
abradant, abrasive material
carborundum
an abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals
steel wool, wire wool
a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive
emery cloth
cloth covered with powdered emery
emery paper, sandpaper
stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand
material, stuff
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
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