abrasion

Meaning of abrasion

noun
  1. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
  2. The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
  3. The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
  4. An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
  5. A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
  6. The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

Information about abrasion

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of abrasion is: abrasions.
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Hyphenation of abrasion

abra-sion

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • abrasion is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

abrasion synonyms

Meaning scratch:

scratch, scrape, excoriation

Meaning attrition:

attrition, corrasion, detrition

Meaning grinding:

grinding, attrition, detrition

Translation of abrasion

Anagrams of abrasion

Sorabian, sorabian

Words that rhyme with abrasion

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